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'V*- --s'C >l At- / -d-~6 > d Paring Lead in Interior Paint Supported by Lead Industry | CHICAGO - A spokesman for the nation's ! lead industry said the industry supports a pro posal by the Pood and Drug Administration to reduce the maximum lead content of interior paints to 0.05% from 1%. Speaking at a news briefing on lead in the environment. Dr. Jerome P. Cole, director of environmental health for the Lead Industries I Association, said, "the Lead Industries Asso| elation has consistently supported and taken 'leadership in eliminating the use of leaded paints .for interiors of dwellings.- "Since the problem of childhood lead.poison ing is well defined, action must be taken to adopt standards and regulations to assure that the cause of pediatric lead poisoning--old inte rior paint--is no longer a problem and to cor rect the existing situation through education and elimination of old lead-based paints from interior surfaces," Dr. Cole urged full appropriation of the fed eral money authorized to fight childhood lead poisoning tinder the`federal Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act that became law last January. . ' ' . . N11991 'M^|~TlR^7607