CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING STUDIES ' The secretary reminded the Board that they had appropriated $10,000 at the beginning of the year for a study of childhood lead poisoning in Bal timore where a large number of cases are being reported and harmful publicity is resulting.

Though I served on the American Public Health Association Committee on Lead Poisoning some years back, Dr.

So far as animal experiments went, it. was f ir s t necessary to determine whether any of them were poisoned by lead and thereafter perhaps to determine the various pecularities of the poison which the various animals showed.

We did not make urine or stool examinations, but are satisfied from the symptoms that he is suffering from early tetraethyl lead poisoning.

iQ, the ],cinl I adust ries ssocia t ion lias arranged to finance a study of the prevention of lead poison!

Hence th e p u b lic -h e altn question a rise s: W ill the use of lead fo r th is pur pose cause lead poisoning in those breath in g the exhaust gases?

Brenner C / f GLD012619 TO: GLIDDEK-DURKEE SUPPLIERS As a supplier of paint coatings or allied products to the paint industry, you are aware of the Paint Poisoning Prevention Act (Public Laws 91-695)* Addi tionally, there are existing strict lead lavs prohibiting the sale and/or use of coatings containing 1$ or more of lead in interior paints in a number of cities and states.

Williams: The purpose of this letter is to express our endorsement and support of the proposed amendments to the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act (Public Law 91-695) as represented by H.R. 37^3 which you introduced February 5> 1973.

Brenner C / f GLD012619 TO: GLIDDEK-DURKEE SUPPLIERS As a supplier of paint coatings or allied products to the paint industry, you are aware of the Paint Poisoning Prevention Act (Public Laws 91-695)* Addi tionally, there are existing strict lead lavs prohibiting the sale and/or use of coatings containing 1$ or more of lead in interior paints in a number of cities and states.

I would advise your changing the expression "brain damage and death," which is an extravagant and dramatic supposition of what might be possible, to simple "lead poisoning."

Williams: The purpose of this letter is to express our endorsement and support of the proposed amendments to the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act (Public Law 91-695) as represented by H.R. 37^3 which you introduced February 5> 1973.

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