Asbestos International Association Public Relations Advisory Panel, Forthcoming Conferences and EEC-Canada Cooperation (1978)

Four pages of Asbestos International Association papers from the files of John H. Marsh of Raybestos-Manhattan (stamped JHM). The first, an annex dated November 13, 1978, lists the association's Public Relations Advisory Panel: public relations consultants in Paris, Brussels, Vienna and Montreal, chaired by C. X. Latty of Latty International, with a British member "to be nominated." The second, for agenda item 5 of the 11th Executive Committee meeting, lists scientific conferences in 1979 and 1980, noting where Dr. Irving Selikoff would speak. The last two pages list ten points for possible cooperation on asbestos between Canada and the European Economic Community.

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The conference list tracked meetings in Brasília, Tel Aviv, London, Lyon, Turin and Cardiff, with notes such as "Dr. I.J. Selikoff - Chairman" and "Drs. Selikoff & Higginson among speakers." The Canada-EEC points ran from research on cancer in Canadian mining localities, "with a view to extrapolating the results to low exposures," and on demolition and asbestos waste, to harmonized labeling and industrial cooperation that "could also encourage the development and marketing" of asbestos products. Parts of the list are in French. The papers that go with these, including the twelve "Statements That Require Answers," are in Asbestos International Association Panel Papers and Statements That Require Answers (1978).