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Dr. Kehoe.V MATSOri OF............ January 9 1936 Mr. Robert F. `Ail non Associated Grocery Manufacturers of America 205 Mast h?nd street New 'fork City Dear Mr. Yilson: -'hen Professor Pickett and I saw you recently in New York, I undertook the duty of informing you more in detail -vbout the lead arsenate situation, and especially about the experiment orooosed for the Kettering Laboratory of Applied physiology ' t Cincinnati. For this u.roose X rm attaching a copy of a paper t'v-t I read at the December meeting of the American homological Society in which I have attemoted to describe the situation in general. More conies of the naper are available if you want them. Certain aovnts not covered, at all in the paoer and certain other points not sufficiently emphasized ore described in the attached paragraphs which I :m copying from a letter that I m sending to Igr* R. G. Phillips, Secretary of the International Apple Association. I should also state that the experiment would be snnervi-sed by a committee of experiment station men, appoint ed by the American homological Society, which would probably be about the sane as the committee that visited the laboratory in September. Interests financing the experiment would also be represented on the committee, unless the commercial interests themselves thought that ouch representation would lay the experiment open to an .accusation of bias. A satisfactory re lationship could-be worked out. Finally, I should perhaps state the obvious part that manufacturers of foods ar# interested not only in lead arsenate but in lead and arsenic in many forms. If the experi ment were started with load arsenate, it would provide usable information about the toxicity to humans of ingested lead, which is necessary, and it could be worked over or redirected later into work with other lead or arsenic compounds. Yours verv trAly, WARJMH 3nc. Chief in r-omological Physiology