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May 31, 1962 Mr. Don G. Fowler Director of Health and Safety Lead Industries Association, Inc. 29 2 Madison Avenue New York 17, N. Y. Dear Don: Enclosed with this letter are three copies of our report listing the concentrations of lead in the tooth pastes purchased in New York and Cincinnati and analyzed as described in your letter of April 19, 1962; Me duplicated your purchases in Cincinnati so that in some cases there are four analyses for the same type of tooth paste. Me trust that this report is satisfactory, but if you have any questions I will be glad to answer them for you. In accordance with your instructions we are retaining the metal tubes until we hear from you as to their disposal. The statement for these analyses will follow shortly. Sincerely yours, cc: Dr. Robert A. Kehoe JC/meg Enclosures J . Cholak Director, Division of Industrial Hygiene Technology /<]r 0014611 Material: Tubes used to package tooth pastes Submitted, by Lead Industries Association, Inc;, 292 Madison Avenue, New Y Investigation of the use of lead tubes in packaging fluorida Required: Qualitative examination of tubes to identify nature of metal Procedure: Tubes were cut open and any paste adhering to the Inside sur playing a stream of distilled water over the surface; The s scraped with a scalpel to determine whether a coating had be metal. After the coating was removed the metal was again sc a sample 10 mg. in weight which was examined spectrographica nature; Analysis Number 62A-2741 62A-2742 62A-27i*3 62A-27W 62A-2747 62A-2748 62A-27^9 62A-2750 62A-2751 62A-2752 Description Colgate - Gardol Colgate - Fluoride Ipana - Fluoride Stripe - Hexachlorophene Crest - Fluoristan Ipana - Fluoride Pepsodent - Plain Pepsodent - Fluoride Gleem - GL-70 Super Amm-i-dent - Fluoride Cincinnati Store Where Purchased K r o g e r 's Kroger's Kroger *s Kroger *s Gray Drugs Gray Drugs Gray Drugs Gray Drugs Steinmann's Drugs Steinmann's Drugs Coating of Inside Uncoated Wax Wax Uncoated Wax Wax Uncoated Uncoated Uncoated Wax From The Kettering Laboratory in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Industrial Health, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio