Sir Neville Stack (Asbestos International Association) to Member Associations on the HEW "Estimates" Paper on Occupational Cancer, with Related Attachments (1979)

A two-page memorandum from Sir Neville Stack to AIA member associations and the executive committee. It gives "over-simplified" background comments criticizing the HEW paper "Estimates of the Fraction of Cancer in United States Related to Occupational Factors", and states that the AIA considers it improper for the paper to influence government policy before peer review. The UCC-Calidria, Niagara Falls stamp shows receipt on April 26, 1979. The exhibit also includes a partial analytical laboratory/OSHA page stamped received April 16, 1979, and a Business Week article of March 19, 1979 on doctors' criticism of federal cancer-prevention policy.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-2: AIA memorandum from Sir Neville Stack, 11 April 1979, on the HEW "Estimates" paper on occupational cancer
• Page 3: Blank page (no text)
• Page 4: Partial page from an analytical laboratory in Salt Lake City addressed to the U.S. Department of Labor/OSHA, stamped received April 16, 1979 (mostly illegible)
• Page 5: Business Week article, March 19, 1979, "Doctors say cancer is a bum rap for industry"

People and organizations

From Sir Neville Stack to All Member Associations; Members of Executive Committee; Chairman, Medical Advisory Panel (cc); Dr. H.C. Lewinsohn (cc); Dr. P. Kotin (cc).

• Neville Stack (author)
• Hilton Cecil Lewinsohn (recipient)
• Asbestos International Association (its organization)
• American Council on Science & Health (named)
• Business Week (named)
• Environmental Defense Fund (named)
• EPA (named)
• Gulf Oil Company (named)
• Medical Advisory Panel (named)
• National Cancer Institute (named)
• New York University School of Medicine (named)
• NIOSH (named)
• OSHA (named)
• Sarah Scaife Foundation (named)
• U.S. Department of HEW (named)
• U.S. Department of Labor (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)

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About this copy

This is document UC-1569 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 5 pages. Production numbers A18059 to A18060.