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OCGU PAT10HAL HEALTH LABORATORIES 211 Uilby St. Houston 3, Texas Phone CApitol 7-5708 James H. Sterner, M.D., Medical Director Eastman Kodak Company 3ii3 State Street Rochester, New York November 9, 1955 Dear Sirt Let me assure you that I do not recommend the prophylactic use of EDTA. do not consider it a panacea for the Ind ustrial Lead problem. I am acquainted with the feelings of CT8. Kehoe, Johnstone, Sterner, Shipman and Foreman in this matter and am also aware of recent work done at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory which casts doubt on the nontoxicity of EDTA. OHL recommends - "Install adequate exhaust ventilation at those positions where the workers show abnormally high lead values in urine or where the max imum allowable concentration in the air la constantly ex ceeded. M OHL auggesta treatment of workers with high ur inary lead values (over .2 mgs.<t>f lead per liter of urine, determined on a spot sample of adequate volume and speci fic gravity by a chemist with adequate experience and eq uipment! our urinary lead findings have been confirmed by the Industrial Hygiene Laboratozy, University of Texas Uedical Branch at Galveston, Texas). A complete physical ex amination, including urinalysis, should be perforated on all workers to be treated with EDTA and followup examine-- tions are necessary to determine the increase in urinary lead output (if anyl)# And to guard against renal damage from EDTA. At the same time, it is essential to carry out air studies and to remove lead contamination from the air. We are for tunate to have on our staff, a Professional Industrial Hy giene Engineer, Ur. Munson H. Tix, who is extremely anxious to design for Basil Industrial plants, adequate ventilation set-ups, to minimise occupational dust exposure. OHL strives to furnish a complete industrial hygiene service from the medical to the engineering. We have been most for* tunate in having the help of Ur. Jim Hammond to get us star ted on the right track. It was not possible for me to attend the last Gulf Coast In dustrial Health Conference since it happened to coincide with my last manic spell during which I felt it necessary to start the lab and could not possibly have kept vtill long enough to have sat through a conference. It is rocking long well now for OHL, and I believe that after a 2-3 year sweating-out period, we snail become the leading Industrial Hygiene factor in the American Industrial Frontier - The Golden Gulf Coast. I enjoyed bearing from you. Sincerely, ___ N22159