April, 2024 - www.unleadedkids.org

April 30, 2024July 31, 2026Housing, Lead, Paint

CDC sends mixed messages about sharing of key lead data

Successfully reducing children’s exposure to lead requires collaboration between all stakeholders: private and public; health, environmental, and housing; and federal, state, and local. Collaboration is particularly important when it comes to sharing data that helps identify homes that have already exposed children to lead so that the causes and underlying issues can be addressed.

April 12, 2024July 31, 2026Food, Lead, Products

Lead in Food: Washington State Acts on Metal Cookware in Face of FDA Inaction

A new Washington State law, passed unanimously by the legislature and signed by Governor Inslee, prohibits manufacturers from making, selling, offering for sale, or distributing for sale or use in the State, any metal cookware with a component containing more than five parts per million (ppm) of lead by the end of 2025.

April 11, 2024July 31, 2026Housing, Lead, Paint

Lead in Paint: Tenants Prompt EPA to Use RCRA to Clean Up Lead Dust in CT

EPA ordered a property owner of an apartment complex in a renovated old factory in Connecticut to assess and clean up lead-based paint hazards after the agency determined the hazards “may present an imminent and substantial endangerment” to tenants. The agency acted pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) as a backstop when the local health department lacked authority to address units where no young children lived.