“…Experimental lead intoxication of nonhuman primates has not, despite these facts, been thoroughly studied. In several experimental poisonings, simian primates were given inorganic lead com pounds intravenously [7-9, 18, 29], intratracheally [19], by inhalation [5,16], 1 or by a combination of methods [30]. Two reports describe infant to juve nile baboons fed small amounts of organic lead in paint [9,27], Oral admi nistration of inorganic lead has been reported in 16 adult [15], 20 juvenile [9,21,27], four infant [6], an unspecified number of infant, juvenile, and adult rhesus monkeys [2,11,24], and in eight infant [9] and one juvenile baboon [8].…”