Event

Surgeon General’s ad hoc committee on tetraethyl lead, 1959

Public Health Service committee that considered a rise in the amount of tetraethyl lead in gasoline above the 3 cc per gallon the industry kept to.

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Ethyl Corporation presented technical data on the proposed increase Primary record 1
Robert A. Kehoe attended the first day as Ethyl’s medical consultant Primary record 1
U.S. Public Health Service convened the committee Primary record 1
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company its representatives, with Ethyl’s, presented data Primary record 1

Timeline 1 date

8 Jan 1959 – 30 Mar 1959 Surgeon General’s ad hoc committee on tetraethyl lead, 1959

Proof 1 source

Report, Surgeon General's Ad Hoc Committee on Tetraethyl Lead, January 8-9, 1959 (letter of March 30, 1959), U.S. Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (copy from the Kettering Laboratory files, via ToxicDocs), 30 Mar 1959. Primary record
Technical aspects of Increasing the limit on tetraethyl lead concentration. Presented by tetraethyl lead industry
as medical consultant to the Ethyl Corporation
On January 8, the Public Health Service representatives defined the scope of the Committee's responsibilities
presented technical and medical data relating to the proposed

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