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Lead Contamination In The News
The scenario plays out all over the country repeatedly. A child goes in for a checkup and gets a routine finger prick from their pediatrician for lead. The screening test comes back positive, so they repeat the test, and it is positive again. Then, a venous draw is...
Keeping Your Lead Bucket Empty
I recall a conversation regarding a cancer bucket. What is a cancer bucket, you ask? It was a metaphorical way of explaining that once you are prone to getting cancer (which was a genetic thing in their case), there were behaviors that could start filling the cancer...
New EPA Dust Clearance Rules Are A Beast
According to my sources, getting clearance is even more difficult due to the new lowered threshold for lead dust in federally funded projects or when Lead abatement is happening. It's Like Taking An Open Book Test Wouldn't it be great if you knew that clearance was a...
CLPPP vs CLPRP Living In Fear Of Lead Poisoning
For years, I have been working under the assumption that a CLPPP was a program that could help prevent lead poisoning of children, as Ben Franklin said. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Ben also coincidently discovered the health risks associated...
Lead Paint Detective Discovers Lumetallix
Anthony Weaver is a Lead Risk Assessor in Toledo, Ohio. The city of Toledo created its own Lead Rules in 2016. He is very connected to his community's Public Health network. He has established himself as an expert, advocate, and educator for Childhood Lead Poisoning...
Kids Deserve To Be Lead Free
As I write this blog, I am reminded about the dangers of not maintaining older buildings where children are present. Child occupied facilities by EPA definition are: A child-occupied facility is a building, or a portion of a building, constructed before 1978, visited...