Neal, Paul

But DDT was not yet approved as a spray. The crucial experiments that opened the door to its widespread use were directed by Paul Neal, the Industrial Hygiene Division scientist who had suggested that lead becomes less toxic when it is combined with arsenic. Neal s forte was not scientific consistency. Three years earlier, he had extrapolated from observed effects of inhaling lead and arsenic to calculate how much of those substances could be safely eaten. Now he ignored demonstrated ingestion hazards when judging the safety of DDT inhalation. 

The following scientists made significant contributions to this work Teresa Bauer, Mendy Foster, Nick Irvine, David McCaskill, Ann Owens Merlo, Jon Mitchell, Roben Neal, and Paul Schmitzer (Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN) John Davies, Karen Wolff, and Wendy Matsumura (Exelixis Plant Sciences, Portland, OR) Glenn Hicks, Mary Honma, and Cathy Hironaka (Exelixis, South San Francisco, CA). 

Many of the chapters in this book were reviewed in draft form by Wayne Christensen and Bruce Main. Their critiques have been influential. Valuable contributions by Paul Adams on the design review concept and by Dwayne Dunsmore and Edward A. Neal who have written about a practical application of the design review process are much appreciated. And, it is appropriate to recognize the fine work done by the committee that wrote the ZIO standard, about which much is written in this book. 

Coble, C.G., Hiler, E.A., Sweeten, J.M., O Neal, H.P., Reidenback, V.G., Lepori, W.A., Aldred, W.H., Schelling, G.T., and Kay, R.D. 1981. Small scale ethanol production from cereals feedstocks. Chapter 30 in Cereals a Renewable Resource Theory and Practice. Y. Pomeranz and L. Munck (eds.). American Association of Cereal Chemists, St. Paul, MN. 

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