Medicine and health general files--poisons and poisoning, 1903-1974.

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Medicine and health general files--poisons and poisoning, 1903-1974.

The records document Consumers' Research's interest in poisonous substances and their use in consumer products and their presence in every day life. Included are correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, and publications. Included are materials on aluminum, arsenic, carbon monoxide, carbon tetrachloride, chlorinated hydrocarbons, copper, fluorine, lead, mercury, miscellaneous poisons, toxicity of metals, oxalic acid, radium and x-ray poisoning hazards, selenium poisoning, snake venom, strychnine, sulfur dioxide, tobacco, and zinc poisoning. Also material on the labeling of poisons.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...