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As- a follow-up to our iseotiag tbs other dsy ia Betrolt,
I 't?aM Wbm.' to..feiilia . to;%m what: 1 'thin!;. tb' Health .
Service* objestivos ar ia stud;/ins load earlier- is tbs. s&to-
motive industry. -
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They believe that there is ecno fragmentary hut up*
satisfactory evidence which Indicates that lead levols which
esr..-sow,to caio j^tually siy sot be al, .end they '
believe that a study of a rcaga of industrial exposurejwould ~
Lsip to develop castors as to what does constitute a eafo -.load
exposure. Thus, they nr looking for werhors who have fceoa
exposed to load is thoir occupation and arc tMnIsin.3 of those
is the automotive industry,, ?. well as those i- ths poiroloua
isdustry and tbs basic load industry, such a the. battery in
dustry and the lend sssltiss industry. What they would lib
to- usdortahe: these .workers;- is ..either a: tetrospectiv ...study
of morbidity and mortality 2'workers who hasr been opposed
for 5 year or nor to load who have bnowa lead lovols either
la the bleed or the urine. la addition, if records are avail
able, they ife^l$:,fib#' :tp;
th^\beEi0g|oMai,;irrfd;':blodi cell
levels, red blood cell fragility tests, and-possibly urinary
coproporphyria. The objective of those studios would fc `to
e `,if
any at ^:^ptiy'-.uisree|gafe^d;:' is4wst* of: load-
at levels which are new believed to- bo are. The purpose of
such studios weald not bo'directed primarily at the workers t!^^oi^es:-':fe|t\'*^he3r!iia:. altOi^tis^ to si^MSlS* standard for
the general population.
If it is impossible to undertake retrospective studios, tSsea- they would lib to so soaa plans made, for prospective studies ia which the above determination^" f morbidity, . mortality, red blood counts, rod blood cell fragility, .and possibly other
potential effects of,.. lead would, be studied" :ta ' -a~grdp. -of-: workers .-opposed to lead* Again, the objective f-'-fboso studies- would
be. to: try to help determine what is, of level cf..e^posurot load of the general population since-at the - Hugh!- Cessaitte hearings and at the Baddarlo Committee bearing this' past sum*
B8f the implication vas^nad that people may- be being affected by proseat levels cf lead in their eavitesseotj exclusive of
whether they are being exposed to lead ia their occupation.
It would ccesa possible, if. this is desired, to have
much studies conducted by trsasferring frea you*-"** record ' onto appropriate form the'type..of lafozm&im that- might be
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