Cleveland____________ --* Executive d o t i December 10, 1970 uMti Lead Paint Poisoning Prevention Act S 3216 WCT.TCO * v As you will .aee (n the attached, ve have reaponded to the request froa Mr.

Ypur continued participation in our efforts to eliminate Lead poison ing in the District of Columbia will be greatly appreciated.

that the condition Is lead poisoning, that some action should be taken in this case by way of speedy compensation.

Reich on childhood lead poisoning 21 previously provided to Mr.

Silbergeld, E.K.; Goldberg, A.M. (1980) Problems in experimental studies of lead poisoning.

s B ureau o f Lead P o iso n in g C o n tr o l, d is c lo s e d th a t te n c o m p a n ie s a r e s e l l i n g h ig h ly le a d e d p a in t s i n v i o l a t i o n o f th e New York C ity H ea lth C ode.

The failu re to prevent in d u strial lead poisoning is one of the m ost flagrant violations of the known and adequate canons of m odern in d u stria l h ygien e that can be found in th is cou n try.

Leaded gasoline is the main contributor to these high lead levels.

Montgomery NPVLA, General Counsel "Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970" _. ________ Charles H.

Primary and secondary lead smelters produce mainly oxides of lead while the burning of gasoline containing lead antiknock agents produces complex lead halogen salts.

The symptomatology of ethylene dibromide poisoning in man has not been studied to any considerable degree.

Incidentally, the letters* paper presents some of the method of analysis in a quite similar fashion to the way it might be applied in the study of lead poisoning.

Animals poisoned with this compound develop symptoms not unlike that associated with the absorption of other brominated hydrocarbons.

While this is not remarkable in view of the fact that few of our laboratory animals develop the so called chronic type of lead poisoning, it is not certain that this is not an ex pression of faulty observation with respect to the course of the disease.

All the experimental 2 evidence on this matter is negative and there have been no cases of poisoning from the absorption of lead up to the present time.