Lead Poisoning Resources
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that as many of 434,000 children between the ages of one and five have elevated blood lead levels.
Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning: Works to protect children from lead hazards in their homes. We have concluded that new strategies are needed to address the changing landscape: the persistent high prevalence of lead hazards in low-income communities of color despite the dramatic decline in national prevalence. http://www.aeclp.org/aboutus/about_us_main.htm Consumer Products Safety Commission: CPSC is an Independent Federal Regulatory Agency. CPSC works to save lives and keep families safe by reducing the risk of injuries and deaths associated with consumer products. Publications on Lead in your home: http://www.cpsc.gov/cgi-bin/recalldb/pubpr.asp
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Human health and human disease from environmental factors. The mission of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is to reduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental causes including lead.
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/faq/alpha-l.htm#lead
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/lyh/lyh.htm
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National Safety Council: The US has made much progress in eliminating some significant sources of lead in recent years. The use of leaded gasoline was phased out during the early 1990s. Leaded plumbing solder and lead solder on food cans were both banned during the 1980s. Lead-based paint was banned in 1978. However, today there are still about 38 million homes that contain some lead paint-about 40% of all US housing.
http://www.nsc.org/issues/lead/
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control was established by HUD in order to bring together health and housing professionals in a concerted effort to eliminate lead-based paint hazards in America 's privately-owned and low-income housing. The OHHLC is unique among federal agencies dealing with lead-hazards, as the Office is staffed to bring lead health science to bear directly upon America 's housing. http://www.hud.gov/offices/lead/index.cfm
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: EPA is playing a major role in addressing residential lead hazards. In 1978, there were nearly three to four million children with elevated blood lead levels in the United States . In the 1990s, that number had dropped to 434,000 kids, and it continues to decline. EPA has coordinated efforts with the public to better protect our children http://www.epa.gov/lead/index.html
Cincinnati Children's Hospital: "History of Lead Advertising" is drawn from the book Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, and from the article "Cater to the Children: The Role of the Lead Industry in a Public Health Tragedy" http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/research/project/enviro/hazard/lead/lead-advertising/default.htm
California Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch: California , during the last decade, enacted landmark legislation to prevent childhood lead poisoning. This legislation has established the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch (CLPPB) a children's environmental health program offering multi-layered solutions to this complex problem. http://www.dhs.ca.gov/childlead/html/clppb.html
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