Only recently endorsed by the Environmental Protection
Agency as an automobile pollution control, may itself be a
health hazard. Platinum and palladium particles from the
device, it is feared, can pour from a car's exhaust and
lodge in human lungs causing ... well, nobody knows yet but
scientists do know that platinum is toxic. The EPA has
launched a $1.5-million crash program to investigate
possible dangers of the very catalytic converter which the
agency just approved. The only trouble, of course, is that
the results of this rush research work won't be compiled
until well after hundreds of thousands of the devices are
already installed on 1975 automobiles.
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