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WINE INSTITUTE WINE IS THE MOST HEALTHFUL AND MOST HYGIENIC OF ALL BEVERAGES''Jmislhsiwl 717 MARKET STREET SAN FRANCISCO 3 April l4, 1967 Dr. Robert A- Kehoe Professor Emeritus of Occupational Medicine Kettering Laboratory Department of Environmental Health UNIVERSITT OF CETCIMATI Eden and Bethesda Avenues Cincinnati, Ohio ^5219 Dear Dr. Kehoe: Thank you very much for your letter of March 28, and for the various reprints on lead and the book of the Harben Lectures, i960 on "The Metabolism of Lead in Man in Health and Disease," which arrived a week later. I didn't get a chance to peruse them until the early part of the week. The lectures were most interesting, as a matter of fact, so interesting I took them home and read them so I wouldn't be continually interrupted. I noted that the work on wine, which you reported on page 4 of your lectures, was previously reported in your reprint "Exposure to Lead" and this would apparently place the research sometime prior to 19^-7 As a starting point in investigating the possibility of the migra tion of lead to the cork and hence to the wine, I will consult sev eral industry technologists on the present day production of the socalled "lead foil" capsules. 1 suspect the composition and the methods of production are completely different from the 19tos when your research was completed. Thanks again for calling this matter to the "industry1s attention. I hope to have some information in the next few weeks. Very truly yours. MHC:eb WINE INSTITUTE\ \V`\\ tr, Hugh Cosk Director, Technical Division ^ 0015087 .VIA AIR MAILZH