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rr-Mii I CC: 6^- E. I. d u Po n t d e Ne mo u r s S Co mp a n y ITTD Fa b r ic s k Fin is h e s De p a r t me n t 48-05 Van Dam St. Long Island City 1, NY (Diet. July 11, 1955) -July 12, 1955 DR. JOHN A. ZAPP, JR. HASKELL LABORATORY This will confirm the writer's conversation with you this morning, in which the following information was relayed to you. Mr. Simon Rubin, whose home phone number is Pieldstone 7-1252, reports that about a year ago he purchased a quantity of household paint in a blue shade from one of our dealers on Amsterdam Avenue in New York, and at that time he painted a baby's crib with it. Mr. Rubin reports that in the last three or four days he noticed that his child, who is now 1 year and 1 month dd, had been eating some of the paint from the crib, and yesterday, July 10th and today, July 11th, they noticed bluish splinters or chips in the child'8 fesces. Mr. Rubin contacted his doctor this morning and the doctor was on the way to Mr. Rubin's house at the time I called you. Mr. Rubin reports that the -child feels sleepy, but the child's appetite is good and the child is cheerful, and apparently has no temperature. We realize that the information given is very sketchy^as to identification of product, but we suspect that it wasvour brush "DUCO", and probably a light blue such as our Powder Blue or French Blue, which are the colors most likely to be used for nursery furniture. Mr. Rubin was unable to definitely give us the name of the material or the actual color and, of course, was not able to give us a batch number as the can had been thrown away some time ago. You agreed to follow thru on this by phoning Mr. Rubin's home phone number in an effort to contact the Doctor (Dr. Goldstein), who was concerned about what treatment to prescribe for the child, and was anxious to have our advice as to whether or not it would be desirable to take the child to a hospital for treatment. Thank you Ifor any cooperation that you can extend in this connection. SLJ:NAM