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Ui. Delays Ban on Tinsel With Leaclw A maaufaciurWBf a type'oi Christmas (bud which has been died by New York's at torney gencrl, as having a dangerously high lead content. said yesterday! that his firm and three othc s made a se cret deal with t e federal gov ernment to flit sdling the' decorations but rot until after next Christmas. bead faigcstr by children has been (num to cause illnes and brain amage. Israel Kindci nan, president of Brite-Star Manufacturing Co., Wolf and Swanson sts^ said there was a secret meet ing in Washlni on on Aug. 12 with Malcolm W. Jensen, di rector of the I ireeu of prodset safety of I le Department of Health, Edo stton anil Wet- Kindcrman said In n tele phone interview that repre sentatives of three other man ufacturers afso were present. The agreement, Kindcrman said, was to guarantee gov ernment silence on the danger tn exchange (or a promise hy the firms that they would stop matting the llnsc'l is of this Christinas sad slop selling it after next Christmas. Kindcrman quoted from a fetter he said he mailed Jen sen on Aug. 2$: "On Aug. 12, !97i, your de partment requested withdraw al of fend foil Icicles from the market. We agreed to stop manufacturing all lead foil icicles ss of Christmas 1971 and will not sell nny lead foil iricles after Christmas 1972." Hall Imports - In exchange, (he Kfriderman Irller said, "jour department would not give this informa tion to the news media or in dict a banning older tmtO Christmas, 1972. Also,- you stated that you would see that the Treasury Department would slop the importation of II lead foil icicles after Christmas 1971." An IDA spokesman con tinued that the giivemnu-nt had rrarbrd a voluntary agreement with the manufac turers. "We were going In put nut a regulation making them switch to plastic," the spokes man said, "but there are fust a small number nf manufac turers and they agreed to do il voluntarily after Ibis Christ mas season." No Funds "We agreed, sine rthrre is no publication nf a Federal Register notice, that we wouldn't publicise flip agree ment. "We do this all the limn be* cause we don't have funds tn enforce the law," said the spokesman, who - conceded that the prndurta probably violate the Hazardous Sub stances Art nr the Child Prolet-linn and Tin' Safely Art. New York's Allntnr ytlener* at fouls frfkfltvftz said the lead cnnteai in the Icicles manufactured by the four firms ranged from $4.3 to 97.t percent. An aide In (tie attorney gen- ____ .> winu4 | icaa foil Icicles tested were Brile- Star, Traditional Foil Icicles - made by the National Tinfoil Manufacturing Co. of Manito woc, Wis., Doubl-Glo made by the Paper Novelty Mattufae' luring Co. of Stamford, Conn., and Foil Icicles made by George Francke Sons Co. of Baltimore. Hugh Dryfoos. vice presfdrnt of piper Novelty, ac knowledged his company's in volvement fat the agreement.. There was no immediate'com ment from the other too man ufacturers. .. DoctmAn Alprtod For leojfoisop Cases With cases of lend poison ing increasing, Delaware nUrtiuM Physical H/atth to be on the lookout tn/the affliction. Twenty/ix cases have been repnrtcd/thLs year* compared with three cases in 1970. AH clset should be report ed to the county health of ficer and will be investigated. The state said symptoms In clude onemia, lack of appe tite, constipation, vomiting and stomach pain. Secretfact Charged Over Tinsel Ban . Piy#iito3 19?luPh v I Rep. John E. Moss (DCaiil) charged yesterday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) entered into a secret agreement with manufac turers not at ban Christmas tinsel containing lead until after the 1972 holiday season. Moss said part of the agree ment was that there would de no advance publicity on the timetable tar removing the tinsel from the market aa a . potential health hazard. The congressman made (he charge In releasing a letter he wrote to M. W. Jensen, dirce- tar of the FDA'e Bureau of Product Safety, saying he found the "actions end in- adions of your agency are truly shocking." Moss said bureau officials met with six domestic tinsel makers Aug. 12 and agreed . production of the lead-based tinsel would be halted after this Christmas and 'salts . would not be stopped until titter Christmas 1972. He said hr had correspondence from . three of the praducrrs/'which corroborate such an | agree ment." | Moss said the tinsel In ques tion "contains over 7?lpcreenl metallic lead which/ If In gested by a child, can result in lead puisonlng.'j .....I *IHW Or no authority under the llnrardoiis Sub stances Ad. or the Child Pm- tectlaa and Toy Safely Ad for an agreement to withhold to- formation about a hazardous product from the public," Mnss'wrote Jensen. 2 Senators Propose /load Fain! Controls ''-ws^te<A 9- WSt-H"*Kdwura M. Kennedy (D-Mas s ) And tUehnrd &. ScHwtlfctr (R- Pa) Ifev* prnjMMfd HtfslAtioA lo cumbAt lend'lMMd pAint slfliclimi. font { AiwiUJiHy-WRs 2W children and cripples (hausAnds of others. The fcgistatinii would nNrnd And expand tend pAiitt rwn(rt frogr*mx began two yt*Ar* Agt* ibl are dun t/ expire June 3H Thr Mil would Authorize ex* prndfturrs next year of S20 million for detection And treatment of tend-tastd point pafaonfog: $25 million fo idrn- - fify arAS where them is a high risk of such poisoning and tS million for research. -3h Metal Traces Reported . In Soup Promotion Bowls Persons who acquired dec-. Ho esltoialed that some 4,- . orated bowls distributed dur 000 Chicagn area residents ob ing a sales campaign by tained the white, glazed, - Campbell Soup Co. of Cam- cream-colored bowls, which ' den were advised today not measure six inches in diamet- to use them. ', er. The owncr'slname is em The warning came from Dr. Murray Brown, commission er of the Chicago Board of bossed at the fchttom near n picture of "Ttto Campbell Kid." I Health, who said tests run on the bowls show traces of cad mium or lead deposits. The CampboNfSoup spokes man said Uie hnf'ls were man ufactured and distributed tor A Campbell Soup spokes man said it is assumed that Campbell by lie Americans Art China Co. nf Sebring, O, since Uto sales promotion Bowl Owners Inown campaign was conducted na To get one if the bowls o tionally (last September), Campbell cu turner had to I ramie of llie howls may have J send in smn labels from been acquired hy residents in Campbell Sou cans and some Greater Philadelphia. money. The Si bring, firm thus 'No Health Hazard'/ has Hie name and address of "Our tests shpw," (he spokesman said, `That there is no health hazard when the bowls are used to (he serving of soup. Other titan that, it Is a mailer for lie company whirls distributes IIhr bmvls." everyone who acquired a bowl, the Campbell kpokesman said. At the offices of toe Se bring firm, reporters were told today that the firm's president was out of town and rmikl mil lie. reached and that no one else in (he firm was J)r. Brown said he did not authorized to make any com tc*-l that person-e eating food Inint Ihc bmrls Kir the length of. time they hive been on Hie market will] suitor any harm. J v* V' Bui, hr. added. It taining funds--such lig.mdos ment on the matter. Dr. Jlroivn said he advised Americana Aits to ball pro duction of Ihr bonis. The If. S. food and Drug Administra tion was notified. or tomato soui/ftveiT stored hi Ihrm for 21 hours or more, dangerous cadmium pr lead salts could be produced, persistent Huge "It takes a tang lime, prt- slsiont usage ami relalivrly . high cnnccnlratinn of Ilia metals, for any cadmium nr (lead pulsonincVi infiltrate nr Twiwiir nuilBu tissues," Dr. Brown said. N39172