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AIR POLLUTION RESEARCH PROJECTS 1969
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Organization: Address: Eden Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219
Title of Project : Human Exposure to Particulate Lead Compounds in tue Air J Under Experimental Conditions
Principal Investigator(s): Robert A. Kehos, M.D., Professor Emeritus Cin charge) with Various members of the Staff of the Kettering Laboratory - principally, J. Cholak, Professor (and Chief Analyst), Lawrence J. Schafer, Assistant Professor (and general Supervisor), and others (physicians, clinical mlcroscopists, biochemists)
Location of Research: Kettering Laboratory
Expected Duration of Project: General investigation of lead metabolism in human subjects has been under way since 1939; will continue indefinitely - the practical problem of the tolerable concentration of lead in the ambient air is but one phase.
community health since inception, under agreements with the Administration of the
WgtSi-` .Additional funds were supplied for a period of five years from the u.S. Public Health Service, Division of Air Pollut Brief Summary ox Description:
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SUMMARY : Brief summary useless. The purpose has been that Of determining th
maximum level of the concentration of lead in the air which when added to the
background of other environmental factors (chiefly that in food and beverages)
can be handled by the excretory, mechanisms of the body without any measureable
elevation of the daily output of lead or any measureable increase in the
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concentration of lead in the blood - that is without measureable indication of
an alteration of the equilibrium now being maintained (by normal individuals)
between their intake and output of lead during prolonged periods (months and years)
of experimental observation.
PUBLICATION : Incomplete - periodically in relation to significant results of prolonged experimentation, by RAK, speaking for the group in publications best d described as Progress Reports. (1) Kehoe, Robert A.: The Metabolism of Lead in Health and Disease. The Earben Lectures of 1860 - J. Roy. Inst, of Public Health and Eyg. 24:(April) 81-97, (May) 101-120, (June) 129-143, (August) 177-203; 1961. (2) Kehoe, Robert A.: Experimental Studies on the Inhalation of Lead by Human Subjects. Pure and Applied Chemistry 8:1-2, 129-144, 1961. (3) Kehoe, Robert A.: Criteria for Human. Safety, from the.Contamint ion of tne
Ambient Environment witn Lead. Proceedings of the KV International Congress on Occupational Health, Vienna Austria, September 1966, Vol. Ill, 83-98 - Verlag der Wiener Mediainischen Academia, Vienna, 1966.
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