LEAD POISONING Elinor Bpfrmjon# Ph.D.

MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL LEAD EXPOSURE The Maintenance worker lead dosimetry program continued through the month.

IDENTIFY NATIONAL LEAD PIPE ONE are the days when lead pipe from high-quality lead-pipe installations.

Wiseman, of the Department of Iviedical and Surgical Research at Ohio State Univelrsity, appear to concur with me in these findings, I have collected a number of precedential instances grouped as follows: Lead poisoning From Apparently Insignificant Exposures Lead Poisoning and the Capillaries Lead Poisoning and the Nervous System Lead Poisoning and Gangrene I am enclosing two copies of each of the above memoranda herewith, with the suggestion that the originals be duly filed with the Commis sion.

LEAD-BASED PAINT POISONING PREVENTION GRANTS FOR DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF LEAD-BASED PAINT POISONING Section 4801.

Lead pigments, such as lead chromates and lead molybdates, have been used to provide the papular bright colors -- reds, yellows, greens end oranges; and, of course, load compounds have been used, where appropriate, in corrosion-resistant coatings because they are especially valuable for such uses.

Longer experience may show th at even such slight storage of lead as was observed in these studies may lead eventually in susceptible individuals to recognizable lead poisoning or to chronic degenerative diseases of a less obvious char acter.

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Control subjects were asked leading questions as to their having been employed in ind\*stries known to in volve contact with lead.

Red Lead - A draft of a new Red Lead Technical Letter was prepared and circulated to the Red Lead Technical Committee for criticism.

Like lead itself, white lead paint is flexi ble. absorbing surface movements without cracking the film.

Conversely, to describe tho occurrence of lead poisoning on-must"be-able to demonstrate# (1) that the individual did not have such exposure to lead as Is coimaonly productive of '.cases of lead poisoning| (2) that his symptoms .and illness can Is explained, by other causes, and ip) that he did not actually absorb, lead in amounts sufficient to produce--injury* . -- .

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Did you know that the additives needed to replace lead are harmful, which lead is not.