14—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 18, 1972
Schweiker Bill Controls
Lead Content in Dinnerware
The good health of all
Americans is the primary con
cern of the Senate Health
Subcommittee, on which I am
ranking Republican Our re
sponsibilities include such far
reaching legislation as the re
cently enacted cancer bill and
the heart disease bill, as well
as the lesser-known problems
of black lung, sickle cell ane
mia. and lead paint poisoning
Lead poisoning in dinner
ware is another obscure prob
lem wo will be dealing with
in the months ahead I re
cently introduced a bill, S
3136, to regulate the use of
lead and cadmium in the
manufacturing of dmnerware,
because excessive leakage of
these elements can cause
nausea, retardation, and even
death
Although the groat major
ity of domestically manufac
tured dmnerware and stone
ware is perfectly safe, there
still exist an alarming num
ber of poisonings from the
leakage of lead or cadmium
into our food and liquids from
faultily made ceramic and
enamel dmnerware
The problem occurs when
dmnerware is fired in the kiln
at an insufficiently high tem
perature Then, and only
then, can lead or cadmium (a
metallic element used in the
glaze coating) be “leeched" or
leak into a liquid or food
being stored m ceramic or
enamel dmnerware
Last year a 17-month-old
Philadelphia baby died after
drinking orange juice from a
pitcher that the Food and
Drug Administration later
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found to contain excessively
high levels of lead Less than
one part per million lead, a
totally harmless amount, is
released by products made by
most dmnerware manufactur
ers, but some smaller shops
and foreign producers are not
always as careful
The bill will strike at the
heart of this problem by in
creasing the authority of the
FDA to expand the dinner
ware industry test to all prod
ucts, both domestic and im
ported It also does the fol
lowing things
—Requires the Department
of Health, Education and
Welfare to establish maxi
mum quantities of lead and
cadmium which may be re
leased from dmnerware
—Sets an interim maximum
release level of seven (7)
parts per million of lead and
0 5 parts per million of cad
mium.
—Requires that each article
of dmnerware made in the
US, or imported into the
U S , bear the name and place
of business of the manufac
turer
—Adds “dmnerware" as a
specific category subject to
regulation by the Federal
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
Lead poisoning in dinner
ware was the subject of a re
cent NBC-TV special that at
tracted national attention to
this problem The NBC-TV
CHRONOLOG program told
of dangerous levels of lead in
dmnerware used in Monroe
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strated how lead poisoning in
general is a clear and present
danger to the health of the
American people.
I have long been interested
in the potentially dangerous
effort of lead on the human
body, and in 1970 I intro
duced a bill to provide civil
penalties for the use of lead
based paint in certain dwell
ings. The most common vic
tims of leadbased paint poi
soning are children between
the ages of one and six who
contract it by eating flakes of
leadbased paint from pre
World War II dwellings. As
with excessive lead in dinner
ware, repeated ingestion of
lead-painted substances can
lead to mental retardation,
cerebral palsy, optic atrophy,
and impairment of intellectual
ability
Thankfully, we have begun
to make progress in the fight
against the tragedy of lead
based paint poisoning Now
we must expand the battle
to include the serious dangers
of lead from other sources,
and I hope my new bill can go
a long way towards eliminat
ing the threat of lead poison
ing m dinnerware.
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