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. Itldovelopod that lie has bean in olosa touch with the development and wanufafl^ra of a new typo of gasoline fired cooking stove fetch has ,, recently'been put in us by the U, S, Army* Ho ohowod im ono of those stoves "? and it;ie different frost aost stoves,.'in that the products of combustion pass lip around the pot? or pane, and it Right he possible that this would have aoae effect on th food. Ho first deed about the Hor-rosiaate amount of lead, ' y.!eh 'th average, in WQ* gasoline and ir, htkyl gasslims, 3c stated they;sight . vrever have occasion to use Sthyi gasoline in those stove's but that they will use v/hatorer motor gasoline is ;.-,ost available wherever tbs -stove is. in use# At present they have on asbestos filter which is euppoeod to filter out same of the lead and .any oth<>r iruo^taroe which slight be oajcotlQcable# , .Eajov Hound stated that the manufacturer who built ore of the first of tbso stoves, which is an ara*y design, seemed quite concerned as to the danger of rood 'conto^inatioa from the leaded gasoline.. He stated this jsanufacturer took this up with, soseor in our Honrpany, after which it was decided to run acme teats tha medical department research division of Walter Read Hospital in Washington, On these tests they used "QM gasoline "and it was finally decided that the possibility of lead eontewin&tion of the food being.'cooked was negligible. Hhcr& they wero ablo to find any trace of lend, it was no more than eight norsuelly be in tho food* However, knjor founds plans to have similar tests run using Ethyl gasoline, so that they say know whether rtshyl gasoline may be used occasionally if necessary, Ho is not at all concerned about this problem, and primarilly wanted the information as to 'possible maximum load content of ISthyl gasolina, which I advised him was three cc, per gallon* It may b> however that our Safety Department would like to investi gate this riattar further. Those stoves are now being manufactured by Kirk and Hlus, in Cincinnati, Ohio* Ho ooKiaittwent was made by me on this question, except to sny that our Safety Bopartsont would no doubt Cooperato with hi:, if he wished further information, )^E 0009556 Yours very truly,