,* w~§« Conference onToxicity Studies. (UNCLASSIFIED) A steering committee on toxicity studies being conducted at the University of Utah mat in Salt Lake “{ty on June 17-19, 1953. These investirations include large-scale experinents with animals on the loneetime toxic effects of plutonim, radium, and mesothorium, Serial injections of degs with the elements have been wader way, and discussions were held to develop and evaluate the various injection and malytical procedures requixed to correlate the re- sults of this project. Since the animal colony is emmseidered ain to humans in these studies, medical care camparable to that which would be scoowdedfumans will be given the dogs up to the time of sacrifice or aL ath. A ree aeaeCT, US DOE ARCHIVES 326 U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY SOMMISSIO™N RG O0E His TorR'An’ Collection Box 3363 Folder 7 23 732