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fpmmm Industrial Hvilene Digest August, 1962 ^99 fOA S<tM Meat 5<Mdidi>a. Two niiuMi of meet utiotilfl on charges that Jt contains food additives not cleared ft* safe were announced fay the Food nd Drug Administration. Suited were IS) found* of "Hyglo Seasoning No* SIS*!/1 distributed by the First Spies Mining Company, lad., Long Island, M York,ftt dealers In St. Ptul, Minnesota, ud New Britain, Connecticut. FDA *414 the product, although labeled as a seasoning, would actually function a* a preservative and a color fixative, especially for ground meat. The Agency said that tha average consumer ueea the color of ground meat M an index of U freshness and that use of this product would fat de* captive, preventing ready detection ot aging or epolliog meat. <1. Am. Med. Aften. BOOKS, PAMPHLETS .AND NOTtCCS : 7P0 Survey of Work In .Comoro's ssd Air Purring th`e Construction'll the Auckland HarDour Bridge. *c. .Special Re^onTto, lp.` Issued by-Mescal Stktisiice BranchDepaf*m*at I He*Uh, Wellington^,,* i* , yg> ' Compiled by K. JI* Rose,. Oovetnmsnt Printer, R. E. fr*n, Vellingjon,' New Zetland.* t f* . i 109 pp lAprU I96l|. 6s*fad. OBTAINABLE FROMt. Government Publications Bookshop, comer . k. of Lamfaton Quav and Bunny Srreet (Private Beg), Wellington* New Zealand. ^ > A survey has been carried out to establish the incidence of decompression sickness on a caisson sinking contract involving tbe construction of'fa piers supporting a bridge across Auckland Harbor. In all, 10,C2 compressions of company employes# were carried out, and 262 bends followed. The overall rale covering all types Of worker, both ehi/t and non*ehift, was 1.6 per hundred compressions. The bends Incidence tended to increase with the rise in working pressures. Almost one-third of tbe total bends in shift workers occurred at tbe highest pressures over 4S psi with a bends rate of 4.6). Thr greatest risk of bends being incurred ' attached to-tbe afternoon tad early evening chills. Tbe bends rate declined during the night sblits. Serious symptoms indicative of cerebral or cardiorespiratory involvement eoeh as coma, chokes, vertigo, vomiting or paralysis, appeared la lTf# of the cases treated on the site. Two out of three bends were relieved in one resompression. No relationship was domonstvatsd between tbe site of the bends and tbs ease with which relief was obtained. Three out of four beods-required a return to full working pressure or an even higher pressure before relief * , obtained. On tbe other hand a somewhat surprising number of benda^were relieved at low pres* suras when working pressures had been high. Two eases of permanent disability have been re* ported and are described. * Both these men had vary short working histories, one man Having worked one shift only at 20 lb. pressure. -- Cond. from author's summary * -704 701 Occupational Disease In California. I960. State of California Department of Public Health, Bureau ci Occupational HM'.tti, it pp. iDatt not given). COPIES ARE AVAILABLE FREE TO INTERESTED PERSONS AS LONG Ad THE SUPPLY LA5T5~rAOMi California Depart ment of Public Ht-eith, Bura j o/Occupational^JtJeelib, liM Berkeley Way, Berkeley 4, Calif. This review summarises 19,642 doctor's aspens of occupational disease from among the nearly 5 million employee* covered under tbe California workmen's compensation law in I960. Mott occupational disease reports fall Into the traditional categories of skin conditions, fosjurarofy conditions and systemic poisoning*. Hazards most frequently Implicated in these diseases are pctoa oak. food preduets and agricultural chemicals. Half the 7J systemic poi sonings on I960 were attributed to agriculture* chemicals, primarily the organic phosphate pesucUes,.- Although'rrloritVly/s* rgpdrts were received r 1960*concem|ng sukb classical * agents as lead (*4 reports), carton monoxide (SJ reperts), carbon tetraqtyoridft (17 reports), and mercury If? reports), these reports are of significance because the principles of environ mental control formal! ccupatirnal e;*ta*e reused by these agdefs have been well understood * * for a long lime another iniiqate a need frr education and enforcement. Among all industry groups, agiHculuro had the hi1sit V;e with IZ.O occupations^ dUette Reports per'li 600 * ! 4.