A serious hasard in the cleaning of tanks that have been u.ed for the blending or storage of gasoline treated with tetraethyl lead will exist so long a?

, to produce tetraethyl lead for gasoline, and Director of the Kettering Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati, a leading center for medical research on lead.

Some of this attention has focused on the role of tetraethyl lead as an additive to most gasolines.

Exposure to Lead; All natural foods contain small quantities of lead because lead is present in all living things.

One can either remove the lead from the exhaust after combustion or prohibit its ad dition to gasoline as antiknock lead tetraethyl or lead tetramethyl.^^ The present trend is to prohibit its use in gasoline.('21 ' 22') However, this could open a Pandora's box to new problems according to Ethyl Corporation(23) -- ore of the largest suppliers of lead antiknock additives.

Mo recommendations* Paint Shoo 1* The red load storage area should ba thoroughly cleaned and kept olean thereafter* 2* All spills of red lead powder, should be cleaned up promptly* 3* All such cleaning should ba dona by vacuum methods if practical* If dry sweeping Is neoesaary, a respirator should be worn and no other'per* sons should ba in the area during such sweeping* 4* Beepirators should ba worn while handling bags of red load and while dumping them into tha ball sill* 5* 3aptid red lead bags should be handled so as to avoid dissemina tion of dust* They should ba kept In covered containers* ' WA-TEX 003746 TEX !

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Hornbeck N13333.01 HE 0012779 rp'Vlfr / aspects of lead in gasoline, X attach the following .publi cation - "Public Health Aspects of Increasing Tetraethyl Health Service and should be useful in stating your caso with the Ministry of Danish Health.

Hornbeck N13333.01 HE 0012779 rp'Vlfr / aspects of lead in gasoline, X attach the following .publi cation - "Public Health Aspects of Increasing Tetraethyl Health Service and should be useful in stating your caso with the Ministry of Danish Health.

* Tank Cleaning Twenty-nine cases tetraethyl lead intoxication with three deaths in 191*5 No cases in past two years.

\ RULES AND REGULATIONS COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CHAPTER 4 Article 432 Regulations Establishing Threshold Limits in Places of Employment (Adopted October 27, 1961) (Revised Aug. 17, 1965) PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH P.

\ RULES AND REGULATIONS COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CHAPTER 4 Article 432 Regulations Establishing Threshold Limits in Places of Employment (Adopted October 27, 1961) (Revised Aug. 17, 1965) PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH P.

*3** pentane-soluble lead was extracted from the homogenate.

Haas (a) Asbestos (b) Noise (c) Lead (d) Carcinogens Canadian "OSHA" Update - D.

Tetraethyl kwd, kwd and major mining diet rid* (Figure bVl).