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Chronology of Leaded Gasoline / Leaded Petrol History –

Knowledge of the dangers of lead in petrol / gasoline;

Steps taken and not taken, to phase out leaded petrol;

Steps remaining to achieve global leaded petrol phase-out.

By Elizabeth O'Brien, Manager, Global Lead Advice & Support Service (GLASS) run by The LEAD Group Inc. Australia. Partner, UNEP Partnership for Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV) and Zac Gethin-Damon, LEAD Group Campaigner for the End of Leaded Petrol Globally by the End of 2011, edited by Anne Roberts for The LEAD Group Inc.

References:

NB: E-copies of all non-web-published or no-longer-online references (except the book by Walker) are available from The LEAD Group Inc. Please use the Contact Us form at www.lead.org.au/cu.html to request copies.

Al-Rudainy, Laith Abdulmajeed, Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq (2010) Blood Lead Level Among Fuel Station Workers, Oman Med J. 2010 July; 25(3): 208-211, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3191642/?tool=pubmed

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Calmy-Rey, Micheline, the President of the Swiss Confederation (2011) Micheline Calmy-Rey letter to Elizabeth O'Brien received 2/8/11 RE: Swiss companies Xstrata & Alcor & their activities linked with addition of lead to gasoline. Switzerland is committed to [implementing] the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, pers comm., 25 July 2011.

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Charnley, Gail (2000) GAIL CHARNLEY - RISK ANALYSIS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: RISK ANALYSIS AND ITS ROLE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION 18 and 19 July 2000 Brussels, http://ec.europa.eu/food/risk/session5_1_en.pdf

De Jong, Rob (2011) Email to Elizabeth O'Brien, The LEAD Group Inc RE: Can you help set a precedent? The global elimination of leaded petrol by the end of 2011, UNEP Partnership for Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV) Clearing House, Nov 30 2011.

Donovan, John; with assistance from Anderson, Phil; Daley, Caroline; Lea, Tony; and Luhse, Peter (1996) Lead in Australian Children: Report On The National Survey Of Lead In Children, AIHW (Australian Institute of Health & Welfare), 1996, www.lead.org.au/Lead_in_Australian_children.pdf

EPA US (Environmental Protection Agency, United States) (1996), EPA Takes Final Step in Phaseout of Leaded Gasoline, www.epa.gov/history/topics/lead/02.html

Farrell, Don, (2011) Letter dated 9 Nov 2011 from Senator The Honorable Don Farrell RE: Elizabeth O'Brien's correspondence of 28 June 2011 to the Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard MP, concerning leaded petrol. Letter received 15 Nov 2011 by The LEAD Group Inc.

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Gethin-Damon and O’Brien, Elizabeth (2011) OECD Guidelines to Multinational Enterprises: The Case Against Innospec’s Continued Sale of TEL for Leaded Gasoline / Leaded Petrol - The exact provisions of the OECD Guidelines to Multinational Enterprises not abided by Innospec, The LEAD Group Inc, 25 Oct 2011.

Gethin-Damon, Zac and O'Brien, Elizabeth; edited by Roberts, Anne (2011) PCFV Partner's Action to Make Leaded Gasoline History - 26-27 October 2011 Nairobi [re: ending the era of leaded petrol / leaded gasoline - presentation by The LEAD Group at United Nations Global Partnership Meeting of PCFV] 26 Oct 2011, www.lead.org.au/bblp/TLG%20Presentation%20at%20Nairobi%2020111026-27/
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IFCS and US (2008) DRAFT FOR COMMENT BY 18 FEBRUARY 2009 - Emerging policy issues: Draft information document on lead in paints, SAICM (Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management), 9 Feb 2008, www.saicm.org/documents/iccm/ICCM2/emerging%20issues/Draft%20information
%20document_Lead.doc

Innospec Incorporated (2008) Innospec Annual Report 2007: For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. Form 10-K, Annual Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, United States Securities Exchange Commission, Washington D.C. 20549, www.innospecinc.com/assets/_files/documents/apr_08/cm__1207823244_10-K
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Innospec Incorporated (2011) Innospec Annual Report 2010: ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934. For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010. INNOSPEC INC. March 2011, www.innospecinc.com/assets/_files/documents/apr_11/cm__1301911642_Form_10-K_
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Kitman, Jamie Lincoln (2000a) We Visit Octel, The Nation, 20 Mar 2000, globalleadnet.com/135/the-secret-history-of-lead-octel

Kitman, Jamie Lincoln (2000b) 8,500 Years Of Lead, 79 Years Of Leaded Gasoline, The Nation, 20 Mar 2000, www.thenation.com/article/timeline

Kitman, Jamie Lincoln (2000c) The Secret History Of Lead, The Nation, 2o Mar 2000, www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-lead?page=full

Kotulak, Ronald (2002) Study links early adult deaths to lead - 30 million in U.S. could be at risk, originally published Chicago Tribune, 27 Dec 2002 at www.chicagotribune.com/features/health/chi-0212270325dec27,1,3244427.story [no longer online as at 9 Dec 2011]

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Malone, Jane (2011), US ACCLPP recommends >5 µg/dL to identify children with "elevated blood lead levels" and reiterates: Low Level Lead Exposure Harms Children - A Renewed Call for Primary Prevention, 17 Nov 2011 Email sent by National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), reprinted with permission with new title by The LEAD Group Inc, www.lead.org.au/fs/Low_Level_Lead_Exposure_Harms_Children_20111117.pdf

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O’Brien, Elizabeth (2007) Countries where Leaded Petrol is Possibly Still Sold for Road Use As at 24th May 2007, The LEAD Group, 24 May 2007 www.lead.org.au/fs/fst27_20070524.html

O'Brien, Elizabeth (2011a) Letter to President Obama - you have the ability to end the use of TEL in gasoline, The LEAD Group Inc, 28 June 2011

O'Brien, Elizabeth (2011b) Letter to Swiss President Micheline Calmy Rey you have the power to end the use of TEL in gasoline, The LEAD Group Inc, 28 June 2011

O'Brien, Elizabeth (2011c) Letter to Prime Minister Australia Julia Gillard will you stop Australian Lead in TEL for petrol, The LEAD Group Inc, 28 June 2011

O’Brien, Elizabeth (2011c) Letter To: Prime Minister Australia Julia Gillard will you stop Australian Lead in TEL for petrol, The LEAD Group Inc, 28 June 2011.

O’Brien, Elizabeth (2011d) Letter To: UK Prime Minister David Cameron - you have the ability to end the use of TEL in petrol, The LEAD Group Inc, 28 June 2011.

O’Brien, Elizabeth (2011e) Letter To: Innospec CEO Patrick Williams please cease the supply of TEL for petrol, The LEAD Group Inc, 28 June 2011.

O’Brien, Elizabeth (2011f) Letter To: Xstrata CEO Ivan Glasenberg Please cease the supply of Lead for TEL for petrol, The LEAD Group Inc, 28 June 2011.

O’Brien, Elizabeth (2011g) Letter To: NCPs (OECD National Contact Points) of Switzerland, Australia {Frank diGeorgio}, the United States and the United Kingdom; CC:  Prof Hatfield; James Rochow; RE: Mediation to end the sale of leaded petrol globally, 27 Aug 2011.

O'Brien, Elizabeth and Aitken, Madeline (2005) Countries possibly still to ban leaded petrol as at 20th October 2005 [67 countries], The LEAD Group Inc, 20 Oct 2005, www.lead.org.au/fs/fst27superseded.html

O’Brien, Elizabeth and De Jong, Rob (2011) Discussion between Elizabeth O'Brien of The LEAD Group and Rob De Jong of UNEP Partnership for Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV) Re inviting Innospec to the PCFV Global Partnership Meeting (GPM) 2011 in Nairobi, dated from 5 Oct 2011 to 12 Oct 2011, The LEAD Group Inc and PCFV

O’Brien, Elizabeth and Roberts, Anne (2008) Time for ban on export of Australian lead for petrol, The LEAD Group Inc, 6 April 2008, www.lead.org.au/mr/20080406.html

O’Brien, Elizabeth and Roberts, Anne (2011) Editorial: Who will be the champion of a world free from leaded petrol? LEAD Action News V11N4, The LEAD Group Inc, 28 June 2011, www.lead.org.au/lanv11n4/lanv11n4-1.html ; PART OF www.lead.org.au/lanv11n4/LEAD_Action_News_Vol_11_No_4.pdf

O’Brien, Elizabeth and Sara, Sue (2011) Lead Letters - Asking The Lead Supplier To Cease Supply, Published online 1 Aug 2008 by The LEAD Group Inc, O'Brien letter dated 20 May 2008, Sue Sara letter dated 3 June 2008, web-published with kind permission of Corporate Affairs Queensland, Xstrata, www.lead.org.au/lanv9n1/lanv9n1-3.html

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Roberts, Anne, Editor of LEAD Action News, based on the research paper by Cooper, Danielle, LEAD Group Intern and Social Inquiry and International Law student, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) (2011), Six countries still used leaded petrol. Why? How the various factors relate to the continued use of leaded petrol; Democracy and the Elimination of Leaded Petrol in 2006; Press Freedom; Per Capita Gross Domestic Product, LEAD Action News V11N4, The LEAD Group Inc, 28 June 2011, www.lead.org.au/lanv11n4/lanv11n4-5.html ; www.lead.org.au/lanv11n4/lanv11n4-6.html ; www.lead.org.au/lanv11n4/lanv11n4-7.html ; www.lead.org.au/lanv11n4/lanv11n4-8.html ; www.lead.org.au/lanv11n4/lanv11n4-9.html ; PART OF www.lead.org.au/lanv11n4/LEAD_Action_News_Vol_11_No_4.pdf

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