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/. / / LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSO CI ATI O N SQ EAST 42ND STREET ' New York 17, N. Y. MANFRED BOWDITCH DI RECTOR O F HEALTH AND SAFETY September Ili, 1956 E lder . Engineering A ssociate American Public Health A ssociation 1793 Brosdaay Net* York l y , Kew York ' ' <% u car Eldei deferring to our telephone conversation I am very glad th a t you w ill veke up w ith E r. Malcolm, r i e r r i l l , Ghairnan otjfoxsc .Committee on Research and Standards the n a tte r oi' p o ssib le re v isio n (o r isim ap c'^o f a supplement t o ) your p u b licatio n 'occu p ational Lead Exposure and Lead R > isoningi^\ / / ' ' " . ,. i-;'j . . V ' / j r- . ' . .' Though t h i s l i t t l e book i s s t i l l t h e > e s t \ t ^ i o f compendium on i t s su b je ct th a t I know o f, and as such continues to ^bb^dT gtrib^^viK p^ ^ b is o f f ic e , i t i s now d e fic ie n t in tw> re s p e c ts, one o f which i^ /p f ^ v e r y l^ a . im pdriaace, '' if \ \ ' . , . : I r e f e r p rim arily to th e absence of any, Reference to th e GaEDTA^ treatm ent f o r load poisoning, which has no;? \kikn in use for/some s ix years and has proved i t s e l f of outstanding value when adm inistered by phypioians having an understandxag of i t s use fulness and i t s lim itations,*, T h d ^ ^ s n ib iiitie s o f i t s misuse a re , however, such as to be a su b je c t of c o n ti^ -iiig '"i;bncora te r th o se o f us who' deal d a ily w ith problem s.o f pluribisa, // , :',:r t V:v - - h r .'A''"' ' . : . . . ; : ' .. ' ' A. - ' . * : t1 ' j j . . . . . .. ' I ask your a tte n tio n in t h i s connection to th e 1955. A.M.A, re p o rt by Dr* Kehoe o f which a copy i s herewith To i& rther i l l u s t r a t e th e spread o f t h i s problem, both chzono ` " an e a r l ie r p u b lic atio n and two q u ite rec en t ones o f what a re now l i t e r a l l y hundreds o f published referen ces to EBTA, copies o f a number o f which a re a v a ila b le from t h is o ffic e on re quest, : ; ' 'A'..; \ . d . ,, . . 1. ; ' - The o th er o f th e two shortcomings re fe rre d to above i s th e la c k of any mention o f th e so -called coproporphyrin t e s t f o r lead absorption, while a subject o f f a r le s s ira- portance th an i s th a t o f SETA, i t s u se fu ln ess as a screening t e s t 'under c e r ta in c i r cu sstan css i s such as to render i t s omission from a p u b lic atio n purporting-:to-'cover the broad su b je ct o f in d u s tr ia l plumbism a r a th e r r e g re tta b le d eficien cy . I f I can be f u r th e r h e lp fu l in th e above connection, I hope you w ill l e t me know* - A . : . ,' , . .. ' ; t -Sincerely yours, isig y; Enclosures cct Br, Keho K 0002503