Lead Industries Association

The Lead Industries Association (LIA) was a trade organization that in 1925 made it possible for Tetraethyllead to be an additive of commercial gasoline[1] and later incorporated in 1928 to promote the interests of the lead industry.[2][3] The National Lead Institute was a predecessor of the Lead Industries Association[4][5][6]The association lobbied to lift bans on, and promote the use of, lead pipes.[7] The association also promoted lead-based paints, which became the subject of a poisoning lawsuit filed against paint manufacturers.[8] In 1958 the LIA and the American Zinc Institute founded an organization with a similar mission that outlasted the LIA, the International Lead Zinc Research Organization (ILZRO).[9] In 2002, the Lead Industries Association of Sparta, NJ went bankrupt and defunct citing that they were unable to get insurance to cover the litigation against them.[10][11][12]

References
  1. Silbergeld, Ellen (February 1995). "Annotation: Protection of the Public Interest, Allegations of Scientific Misconduct, and the Needleman Case". American Journal of Public Health. 85 (2): 165–166. doi:10.2105/AJPH.85.2.165. PMC 1615323. PMID 7856774. LIA's greatest triumph was in 1925, when it overrode opposition to the introduction of tetraethyl lead as a gasoline additive
  2. Rabin, Richard (2008). "The Lead Industry and Lead Water Pipes "A MODEST CAMPAIGN"". American Journal of Public Health. 98 (9): 1584–1592. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2007.113555. PMC 2509614. PMID 18633098.
  3. Zhorov, Irina (February 29, 2016). "How We Ended Up With Lead Piping And Why Removing It Will Be Hard". WESA. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  4. Silbergeld, Ellen (January 1996). "Silbergeld Responds". American Journal of Public Health. 86 (1): 115. doi:10.2105/ajph.86.1.115. PMC 1380383. PMID 8561232. Although the Lead Industries Association (LIA), which Smith directs, was not itself involved in these and other activities, its predecessor, the National Lead Institute, was active in obscuring the hazards of lead.
  5. Peter Reich (June 1992). The Hour of Lead (PDF) (Report). Environmental Defense Fund. p. 14. Retrieved December 19, 2019. ... National Lead Institute ... Apparently a predecessor of the Lead Industries Association.
  6. "Open Price Idea Grows". Paint, Oil and Drug Review. April 3, 1918. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  7. Smith, Heather (June 22, 2018). "The Lead Poisoning in Flint Points to a Nationwide Problem". Sierra Club. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  8. Newsline, Legal (November 14, 2017). "Lead Paint Makers Lose Another Round In Long-Running, $1.1 Billion California Lawsuit". Forbes. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  9. Kitman, Jamie Lincoln (March 2, 2001). "The Secret History of Lead". The Nation. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  10. Rogers, Jim (2004). Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market. Random House Publishing Group. p. 170. ISBN 9781588364470.
  11. Smith, Gerald R. (2002). "Lead in April 2002" (PDF). USGS Mineral Industry Surveys. USGS. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
  12. "Formerly The World of Lead - The Lead Industries Association". Vulcan Lead, Inc. 2002. Archived from the original on November 24, 2002. Retrieved October 31, 2019. ... the Lead Industries Association, Inc., (“LIA”) has declared bankruptcy and is no longer an active organization ...
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