Publication Board Reports

Plum Brook Ordnance Works Sandusky, Ohio Amer expl(classified) Publication Board Report of OTS... 

PBRept Publication Board Report ethyl nitrate... 

Kleiderer, E. C., Pharmaceutical Activities of the I. G. Farbenindustrie Plant, Hochstam Main, U. S. Department of Commerce, Office of the Publication Board, Report PB 981 (1945). 

Compilation of a bibliography. Choice of a topic conduct of search report. Government documents (except patents). General indexes production statistics import-export statistics Office of Publication Board reports. 

The PB (Publication Board) report collection, maintained by the Office of Technical Services (OTS), U. S. Department of Commerce, includes all the technological data seized by the Allies after World War II from the conquered European and Asian enemy countries, particularly Germany it also includes a large number of declassified reports of U. S. federal-sponsored research carried on during and after World War II, and British and Canadian reports of government-sponsored research. 

Approved in 1981 as a table top sweetener and for dry foods, aspartame was permitted in carbonated soft drinks in 1983, and in 1996 its approval was extended to all foods and beverages. There has been controversy over the role a Public Board of Inquiry played in the approval process, but this has been discounted in reports by the American Medical Association (Council of Scientific Affairs, 1985) and Stegink (1987). Reports of adverse reactions began almost immediately after approval in the 1980s, and by mid-1984 more than 600 complaints had been received by the FDA. Reports of adverse reactions peaked in 1985, when over 1,500 complaints were received by ARMS, and have been declining since then. As of June 2000, ARMS had received a total of 7,335 complaints about aspartame, with 47% of complaints linked to diet soft drinks, followed by 27% of complaints attributed to table top sweeteners. All other product categories were mentioned in fewer than 10% of complaints. 

William R. Rhyne received a B.S. in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee and M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Virginia. Dr. Rhyne is currently an independent consultant and earlier cofounded H R Technical Associates, Inc., where he remains a member of the board of directors. He has extensive experience in risk and safety analyses associated with nuclear and chemical processes and with the transport of hazardous nuclear materials and chemicals. From 1984 to 1987, he was the project manager and principal investigator for a probabilistic accident analysis of transporting obsolete chemical munitions. Dr. Rhyne has authored or coauthored numerous publications and reports in nuclear and chemical safety and risk analysis areas and is author of the book Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk Analysis Quantitative Approaches for Truck and Train. He is a former member of the NRC Transportation Research Board Hazardous Materials Committee, the Society for Risk Assessment, the American Nuclear... 

W.R.Tomlinson, Jr O. E.Sheffield, Picatinny Arsenal Technical Report No 1740, Revision 1 (1958), "Properties of Explosives of Military Interest B.T.Fedoroff et al, Picatinny Arsenal Technical Report No 2510(1958) "Dictionary of Explosives, Ammunition and Weapons (German Section) Publication Board s Report (of the US Office of Technical Services)... 

Publication Board (PB) Reports. This collection originally contained captured German and Japanese scientific reports and German patents which were acquired between 1946 and 1949. The collection now includes unclassified technical reports of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and their contractors. National Bureau of Standards, Maritime Administration, Federal Aviation Agency, Bureau of Mines, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

The ready availability of sufficient and suitable source material is a very important requirement. While some libraries have available on their shelves only the abstract journals and the main reference sources and rely on public and other outside libraries for other publications, yet it would appear that this procedure would be very costly in time of personnel. Typing facilities are not available at most public libraiies and it is necessary to write in longhand the data required often, on checking the information later, it may be necessary to make another trip to the library to supplement the data first obtained. Consequently, it has been the aim to have available in The Texas Co. libraries not only all the main abstract journals, American, British, French, and German, reference works, and encyclopedias, but also practically all texts relating to the particular fields of interest of The Texas Co. In the main libraiy prints of reels 1 through 305 of the Technical Oil Mission reports and a collection of reports of the Publication Board, BIOS, FIAT, etc., are retained in loose-leaf binders. 

Stephenson WP. 2005. FDA Public Hearing Reporting of Adverse Events to Institutional Review Boards, CIOMS VI Working Group Proposals. US Food and Drug Administration, 21 March 2005 16 May 2006 (http //www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/ 05n0038/05n-0038-ts00015-02-Stephenson.pdf). 

Government Reports. The Office of Technical Services of the Department of Commerce has reports from the Office of the Publication Board (OPB), British Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (BIOS), Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS), and Field Information Agency, Technical (FIAT). A file and index of these reports form a valuable addition to any research library. Discretion is required in using this information, and it must be realized that there have been many advances since these reports were written. In spite of this, much information of value can be obtained from these sources. 

The Office of Technical Services (O.T.S.), U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D.C., has a complete record of all declassified reports of the British Intelligence Objectives Sub-committee (B.I.O.S.), the Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-committee, SHAEF (C.I.O.S.), and the Field Information Agency Technical (F.I.A.T.). The O.T.S. can arrange for delivery of copies, photostats, or microfilms of these reports for a fee. The Office of the Publication Board (O.P.B.) reports are also available from the O.T.S. 

OJ. B. Declassified Bept. 183 (Office of Publications Board, UB. Department of Commerce). Reported by Lbaper, Mfg. Chemist, 19, 114 (1948). 

Complications also arise in determining whether the pilots followed the rules of engagement (ROE) specified for the no-fly zone, because the ROE are not public and the relevant section of the Accident Investigation Board Report is censored. Other sources of information about the accident, however, reference clear instances of Air Force pilot violations of the ROE. 

HSE is a UK government, non-departmental public body reporting to an executive board. 

Walsh, W.J. 1990. Making Science, Policy, and Public Perception Compatible A Legal/Policy Summary, or Do We Want to Clean Up Hazardous Sites or Just Scream and Yell at Each Other. Pp. 206-249 in Ground Water and Soil Contamination Remediation Toward Compatible Science, Policy, and Public Perception. Report on a Colloquium Sponsored by the Water, Science and Technology Board. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press. 

TRB Publications Index http //pubsindex.trb.org/ (accessed August 17, 2010) from the Transportation Research Board contains more than 41,000 records with abstracts for all TRB, Highway Research Board (HRB), Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP), and Marine Board publications from 1923 until the present. All NCHRP and TCRP publications, special reports, and records are included. Each individual paper and article in the Transportation Research Records, Conference Proceedings, Research Circulars, and TR News is indexed. Records can be browsed by mode. 

Publication Board (PB) Reports originally consisted of captured enemy reports which were made available at the end of the last war. Nowadays they comprise the unclassified reports of a variety... 

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has conducted detailed investigations into a few chemical reactivity incidents. Case studies and full investigation reports are available from the CSB (Washington, DC) or its website (www.chemsafety.gov). Extracts from three CSB publications (1998,2002a, 2002c) are given here. 

Following the hearing, a 30-day period was opened to receive written public comments. All information gathered at the hearing and written public comments were carefully considered before the final report was approved by the Board. 

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