Public Health Service: Public Health Bulletin No. 163, 1926, p. 110.

Public Health Service: Public Health Bulletin No. 163, 1926, p. 110. 2.

(5) Average Tetraethyl Lead Content of Ethyl Gasoline in Various Areas of the United States from 1926 to 1929

If data were now va.ilbio on body lead K 000S346 -3- burdena, with 1926 e.a a baseline, a more objective decision would have been possible.

D- KE 0009290 f: J*- . ./ V CHANGES IN THE REGULATIONS FOR THE SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF GASOLINE CONTAINING TETRAETHTL LEAD AS APPROVED FROM USE TO TIME UP TO JUNE, 1946 0009291 asranssiiStBs&K CHANGES IN THE REGULATIONS PROPOSED FOR TETRAETHYL LEAD GASOLINE la 1926 there were published, as part of Public Health Bulletin No. 163, which contained the report of the committee on tetraethyl lead gasoline, four sets of regulations which had been formulated in accordance with the committee's recommendations.

D -3 f CHANGES IN THE REGULATIONS FOR THE SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF GASOLINE CONTAINING TETRAETHIL LEAD AS APPROVED FROM TIME TO TIME UP TO JUNE, 1946 V 0009291 \ CHANGES IN THE REGULATIONS PROPOSED FOR TETRAETHYL LEAD GASOLINE In 1926 there were published, as part of Public Health Bu lletin No. 163, which contained the report of the committee on tetraethyl lead gasoline, four sets of regulations which had been formulated in accordance with the committee's recommendations.

It is my understanding from sueh information as is avail able that Evans had no exposure to tetraethyl lead or Ethyl Gasoline since 1926.

Since 1923 and to a much greater extent since. 1926, - thousands of men have been engaged in the work whioh involved daily contact with Ethyl Gasoline at refineries, filling stations and garages.

In May of 1959, the preliminary experiment involving the use of tetrainethyllead was initiated in San Francisco, California and was completed some months later, as described in detail in a Report of the Kettering Laboratory, dated November 10, 1959 and entitled "An Investigation of the Potential Hazards of Exposure to Lead Associated with the Handling and Use of Gasoline Containing an .Antiknock Fluid in Which Tetramethyl lead is Substituted for Tetraethyl Lead."

In May of 1959, the preliminary experiment involving the use of tetrainethyllead was initiated In San Francisco, California and was completed some months later, as described in detail In a Report of the Kettering Laboratory, dated November 10, 1959 and entitled "An Investigation of the Potential Hazards of Exposure to Lead Associated with the Handling and Use of Gasoline Containing an .Antiknock Fluid in Which Tetramethyl lead is Substituted for Tetraethyl Lead."

It is our thought that your Public Health Bulletin No. 163, 1926-Series 3, amended June 28, 1946, -which covers the regulations for properly advertising fuel containing leaded gasoline on filling station dispensing pumps also oovers the labeling of stationary and mobile refuelers handling aviation leaded gasoline at airport installations.

C, Dear Siri It is our thought that ycur Public Health Bulletin No. 163, 1926-Series 3, amended June 28, 1946, -which covers the regulations for properly advertising fuel containing leaded gasoline on filling station dispensing pumps also oovers the labeling of stationary and mobile refuelers handling aviation leaded gasoline at airport installations.

Public Health Service Investigation of the health hazard from leaded gasoline,to which I referred In my statement of January 15th, were published as Public Health Bulletin H o ,163 dated 1926.

Axtelli Til results of the U. s. public Health Service investigation of the health hazard from leaded gasoline,to which I referred in my statement of January 15th, were published as Public Health Bulletin Ho.165 dated 1926.

We have demonstrated, I believe, conclusively that lead Is not absorbed out of gasoline through the skin.