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Juices Contain Excess Lead Leai^oSm^ - By MARILYNN hlARTER intake of lead as cle^ermmij M3*: FoundinXfilldren *feEiJe, 6aho19?^P) -P\tir- tually *11 recent blood nopies collected from school children In the mining town of Kellogg show dangerous lev* els of lead poisoning, accord ing to a slate health officer. Dr. James Ban said the * * "Jt'|u4re*"Fiijd tVrM*r of lead build-up in the body. NEW ORLEANS ,-7-. Parents may be ac, cidentalty feeding Hieir children excessive lead in baby juicessold in lead-s.oldered cans, ' Dr. Yuen S. Lee, a researcher with .the Dis*. i trict of Cotumbin Department of Human Re- | sources, told the annual meeting of the In 'a Washington, D.' <Li researcher reported stitute of Food Technologists that the lead . Mdniiay. l;iv ` might-deeumulate in tie body end ultimately In fad, he said, softie canned baby juices . eausAJeed ooisoninn-d l contain more titan twice tiie permissible daily *' A single Joonsfmce can of babY juice, be ^saidi can contain une-half of, f the' pentiissible da(ly intake' trad pnlsnning showed up In ! bt lead. percent of 175 hlnod sam A combined diet ot 32 ples taken from children who lived within a mile of the Bunker Hill lead-zinc smelter In Kellogg. Spokesmen tor the smelter disputed Ban's announce ment. saying company sur veys have turned up no such problems. The stale survey was start ed after two Kellogg children were hospitalized In April for treatment of lead poisoning. A House Of Mint Safest? Cftfcvifo Timtt BrpM# ,, ounces (four eight-ounce bot.-.-ties) of canned milk formula V and eight ounces Itub four, oupee Cans) of canneti baby V juice can far exceed Ithe re-' commended daily allowance . of lead, Dr. Lee saicj Hi bis - study. He tested about 60 famples ' I of canned baby juices lof vari ous kinds and from/various manufacturers. He / blamed, the. Icad-soldcrcd sjams on PROVIDENCE, RJ. - ' the cans and urged laby-food child's dream of having manufacturers to | change Car Fume house made out of .pepper mint could turn into a dis tasteful nightmare and that's exactly whet a team of Brown University researchers their method ut mjking the cans. Another study oils baby' i-feods in glass jail showed `only one-tenth as much lead' -as lire' average content of. are hoping for. fjCwark -- Auto exhaust nn tiie occurrence of caasM of According to the investiga I canned juices, well liiihln the safely limits. fnmhs may he a ntnjnr reasnn lend poisoning." tors, pointing ymtr house with Dr. Lee said till lead ap-: fnr lead poisoning in children, Thus, Dr. Joselow said, arcptdjng to an associate pro fessoral tho New Jersey Me dical School of the College of Medicine and Dentistry here. Icad-hascdpjioHo-aiactor In lead polaolting "but clearly it Jsjinnhe only one." e said almost 10 jierceot of children sampled wlo were Dr. Morris Joselow, direst close to roads with "Average tor of the lead laboratoiy of weekly vehicular densities'* the achonl. said studies show of orcr 21,000 chtmct high that blond load concentrations blood load concentrations -- In youngsters were' directly 60 or noire microg/ams per related to distance of their 100 milliliters of bio ' homes from maidr traffic ar However, the drfclor said, teries. / only 5 percent oil those ex peppermint paint could dis courage your'cEfldren from nibbling on potentially toxic point chirs and plaster. Reporting in the current Issue of the National Safety Council's Journal of Safety Research, the researchers said they may finally have found a practical solution to the problem of children eat pnrcntly "lcavhcs"lor conta minates tire juice luring sto-. rode, and the problem wor-, sens the longer tip juice is 1 stored. There is little Ihard evi dence on what efforts low but. detectable amount! of lead in the body may hard, but some . researchers helical such lev els mar cause minor nervous disturbances and (even learn ing difficulties. Dr. Joselow/ who made the posed to lower traffic den- ing flaking paint -that often :Z:JTLaurvey with Rutgers Univer sity scientist's, said: S't u.s. "* > o^lead)pobon- However, there's no agree-. mont on exactly how much lead is la.i much" for the' "ChiMreii living wllhin 100 surgeon general, I blood load body to tolerate. feet of n major roadway were levels of less than <0 micro In a search for a taste that Dr. Lee said the lead levels almtisMwIce as likely to have Wood lead levels In a dan gerous range than those liv ing more than 200 feet away. "Furthermore, the trattlc densities carried by the road ways were also found to be very significant In their effect grams of lead per 100 millili ters of blood -- roughly one pnrt In 2 million -- are con sidered acceptable. (A microgram is one-mll- Ilonth of a gram, which Itself is only a tiny part -- .035 of an ounce.) children would find revolting, the researchers experimented with 102 children betrlren the ages of 3 and < yews end found to their surprise that the children hated peppermint the mist. \ recorded in the baby juices averaged out to the maxi-, mum permitted under the British system and most cans contained more than the pro posed U. S. Food and Drug Administration levels. But Dr. Lee contended that adult tun ms" said Ur. Ttyge. Eauen and Florence E. (Inrpatlen. The children liked the cherry the best. They could take nr leave cinnamon, most turned up their noses with hntehnund but all the children rested found peppermint 'yiicfcy.** What was strange waft that the kids didn't mind the bitter taste of horehoufld candy, which was rated the worst by adults given the same taste test. The four1 candies the chil dren were asked to taste In1 eluded sweet cherry, epicy cinnamon. Hot peppermint because lead emers the body in many Finds and from many sources, these maximums arc toe high. N39142 The results, said the Inves tigators, support Hie hypothe sis that there is a basic taste that practically all young children find revolting and that this taste could be used to discourage them from eat ing paint, plaster- putty end other potentially harmful pro ducts. and Utter tiorebound. Even when the horehntmd herb was added in tweie the amounts normally found In commercial horehound coughdrops, the children still pre ferred it over peppermint. "TWs indicates the potenHal unreliability of predicting children's preferences hr