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r?mr?nnnE AUG 17 1971 EEEITCTEUi) 1616 Tacoma Avenue Rockford, Illinois August 14, 1971 Lead Industries Association, Inc. 292 Madison Avenue New York, N. Y. 10017 Gentlemen: I am enclosing an item which appeared in our paper and naturally caused me some alarm. But what to do about it. No products were named so that the consumer might stay away from them. I wrote to the Food Drug and Administration and received some information which is where I received the above address. It seems there is a publication as of 1970 of findings in ILZRO Manual No. 1, "Lead Glazes for Dinnerware" which is avail able free. Would you please send me THREE cdpies of the Manual. I wish to have one for myself and one each for our two married sons and their families. A ten-year old child has.died in our community from what is presumed to be lead-poisoning. It is not a case of lower income or poor housing. More than one child in the family, yet none of the others in the family had the high lead concentrate in hheir bodies that she did. It is still being investigated. Please send me any information that you have and if there is any charge I will send the amount back by return mail. Thank you. Sincerely, (Mrs. H. W. Afflerbaugh) A LIA-76994 " T (' i\ Warn against * ceramic K dinnerware ; WASHINGTON (UPI) --The | Food and Drug Administration 1 (FDA) has advised consumers against storing acidic food and beverages in ceramic dinner- ware but has decided against a massive recall of pottery prod ucts. The FDA announced Tuesday it had discovered that foods and < beverages sometimes absorb poisonous lead and cadmium from decorative decals- on din- nerwore. "Since there is no ready means to identify whether de- caled dinnerware already in use contains excessive levels of these metals, the consumer should not store acidic foods or beverages in such containers for j prolonged periods of time, such | as overnight," site FDA said in a] statement. | "Daily use of the dinnerware j for food service v.iii r.ot pose ! any hazard," it added. j The FDA cited as examples of acidic items, fruit juice, soft drinks, wines, cider, vinegar, sauerkraut, and tomatoes. Thomas W. Brown, com pliance director for the FDA Bu reau of Food);, said the decal hazard was discovered during FDA checks for lead and cad- mim in oottsry Brown, said the decal hazard, although previously unknown, j probably has existed for a dec ade. The FDA said millions of pieces of dinnerware were in volved. from cheap pottery to ex pensive china. Brown said the FDA consid ered a massive recall of all ce ramic dinnerware. but decided the hazard was too slight and the recall problems too large for such a move. With the exception of hand painted items, most dinnerware decorations are by decal, the FDA said. Common, decals in clude stripes around the rim and pictures of fruit or flowers, sometimes embossed. LIA-76995 N 1066.01