The record
Peer-reviewed literature identified talc-associated disease and asbestos minerals in cosmetic talcum products before the 1971 FDA controversy began: Hunt (1956) on massive pulmonary fibrosis from talc inhalation; Kleinfeld et al. (1967) on mortality among New York State talc miners and millers; Cralley et al. (1968) on fibrous and mineral content of cosmetic talcum products.
Claim scope
That the pre-1971 scientific record cited by PMID 31095409 is real and PubMed-indexed. All three PMIDs were verified individually (title, journal, year, authors) — not mapped positionally from a batch. Cralley 1968 is the key entry: a federal-scientist (NIOSH-lineage) survey of COSMETIC talcum products published three years before the FDA convened its methods symposium.
What this source does not establish
CRITICAL: PubMed provides NO ABSTRACT for any of these three records. The quantitative claims PMID 31095409 attributes to them — Kleinfeld's lung-and-pleura mortality “approximately four times that expected” and Cralley's fibre content “ranging from 8 to 30%” — were verified ONLY as quotations inside PMID 31095409, NOT against the original articles. Do not present those numbers as verified against the primary papers. Also: Dreessen (1933), Porro (1942), the 1963 National Safety Council pamphlet and Wright (1969), all cited by PMID 31095409, were NOT resolved to PMIDs here.
Limitations
Cite the three PMIDs for existence/topic/year, and attribute any number from them to PMID 31095409 as a quotation. Kleinfeld 1967 is an occupational MINER cohort, not a consumer study — do not use it as evidence about consumer product risk.
Source
Pmid — 6024643