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> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 11:08 AMSubject:

> Georgia Crime Laboratory

> Document #148

> 04/05/73 EMBOLISM KNOWLEDGE OF LIQUID SILICONE

> DANGERS STERILIZATION/CONTAMINATION

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> Report by S. Braley, Dow Corning, of telephone

> conversation with Mrs. Herman D. of the

> Georgia Crime Lab regarding a death caused by a

> breast injection of silicones. Pathologist reports

> large amounts of silicone emboli in the brain and

> lungs. In the case of the breast tissue, the

> silicone was dripping out. Current testing equipment

> and procedures will accurately test for the carbon

> silicon bond but will not detect where the silicone

> came from, whether there were additives in the

> silicone or whether it was pure silicone. They will

> detect whether they were phenyl methyl silicones or

> all methyl.

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> CITE: KMM 305064 - 305065.

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> Dow Corning Trial Exhibit List Abstracts

> PENDLETON/PSC Attorney Work Product/Privileged &

> Confidential

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