Tenneco Chemicals, Inc. submitted a summary of preliminary data from a rat dermal application study of a mixture of the cadmium salts of para-tertiary-butylbenzoic acid and benzoic acid. (The submitter has claimed the actual identities and amounts of the applied mixture components to be Confidential Business Information). According to the submitter, a single high level dermal exposure to the mixture (in an appropriate vehicle) produced testicular damage in the rats. The submitting company stated that this dermal application study in rats was undertaken following receipt of information that para-tertiary-butyl benzoic acid caused testicular damage in laboratory animals.