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A one-page letter of August 3, 1978, from Dr. Premysl V. Pelnar, scientific secretary of the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health in Montreal, to Barbara Diemer, a legal assistant at Johns-Manville Sales Corporation in Denver. Pelnar enclosed "the QAMA first pamphlet 'Asbestos and your health'," which he said the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association published in April 1972. The pamphlet itself is not in this copy.
- Author
- Premysl V. Pelnar
- Sent to
- Barbara Diemer
- Published by
- Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health
- Date
- August 3, 1978
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 24479 · asbestosclaims.law/library/24479
- Rights
- Republished under fair use for research and historical study.
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The letter dates the mining industry's first health pamphlet for workers to April 1972. J-M's legal department was then probably gathering the history of what the industry had told workers about asbestos, for use in lawsuits; a similar inquiry concerned J-M's own 1969 booklet (see Barbara Diemer's memo of January 1981).
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Premysl V. Pelnar. “Dr. Premysl V. Pelnar to Barbara Diemer Sending the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association's First Health Pamphlet.” August 3, 1978. Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 24479. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/24479.
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