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Contaminated and Natural Lead Environments of Man

Clair Patterson’s 1965 paper on industrial lead in the air, oceans and people.

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U.S. phase-out of leaded gasoline, 1973-1996 According to Clair Patterson Primary record 3
Patterson’s own account in 1995, speaking of a paper on lead in food and people.

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Contaminated and Natural Lead Environments of Man (abstract, CaltechAUTHORS), California Institute of Technology (CaltechAUTHORS), 1965. Scholarship & press
A new approach to this matter suggests that the average resident of the United States is being subjected to severe chronic lead insult.
Lead - Dangerous Pollution (Engineering and Science, October 1965), California Institute of Technology, 1965. Scholarship & press
Existing average body burdens of lead are about 100 times larger than natural burdens.
Clair Cameron Patterson Oral History Interview (interviews of March 1995 by Shirley K. Cohen), Caltech Archives, 1997. Primary record
So it was instrumental; this was the impetus that began providing the scientific foundation to get lead out of gasoline.

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