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May 19# 193k State of Illinois Industrial Gomsiaaion 205 W* Tracker Street Chicago# Illinois Gentlemen s Tour letter of May 16th addressed to the Ethyl O&sollrte. Corporation of Mew York has been referred to m for reply I and ny associates In this laboratory have sad a detailed study of the possible hazards from lead relating to the sale and distribution of gasolines containing lead* I an best answer your letter by sending you under separate over reprints of published articles from this laboratory* ` For your further Information I should like to briefly describe additional experimental observations, which have just b een completed# and which will soon -be published* We have selected a number o f subjects who have had no previous exposure to lead compounds* and have studied their lead metabolism In the laboratory over a period of months* At the end of this control period# these persons have been intro duced into positions which are representative for gasoline filling station employees# and for garage mechanics# and during this employment for a period of months we have followed their lead metabolism In the same manner employed during the control period* The results of these observations indicate quite clearly that the lead exposure associated with the handling of leaded gasoline is so alight as hot to be detected* We can not escape the conclusion that these occupations do not Involve significant exposure to lead compounds* Very truly yours# HAXiIS K 0000509 Robert A* Kehoe# M*D*