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Author: Tom Neltner

Tom Neltner is national director for Unleaded Kids. He is a chemical engineer and attorney dedicated to chemical safety issues. He is using his quarter century of experience in government, industry, academia, and non-profit advocacy to protect kids from harmful exposure to lead.
January 9, 2025February 14, 2025Food, General

Lead in Baby Food: Dietary Supplements Companies Scramble to Comply with California’s AB-899

California requires testing and disclosure of arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury in dietary supplements and other foods when intended for babies.

January 3, 2025January 3, 2025Health Risks, Lead, Products, Workplace

Lead in Products: California Sees Risks, Prospects for Safer Alternatives to Lead-Acid Batteries

Inaction for the right reasons might send the wrong message.

January 2, 2025April 9, 2025Food, Lead, Products

Lead in Baby Food: California Requires Companies to Disclose Heavy Metal Levels

Plum Organics leads baby food companies in posting toxic element testing results online.

December 26, 2024December 26, 2024Health Risks, Lead, Products, Workplace

Lead in Products: EPA’s Perplexing Gift to Lead Industry

EPA’s decade-long failure to ban lead wheel weights leaves workers and families bearing the burden of exposure.

December 16, 2024December 18, 2024Health Risks

CDC’s LEPAC Calls for Groundbreaking Action to Protect Adults from Lead

Lead exposure is a cardiovascular risk factor on par with high cholesterol, smoking, and high blood pressure. That message needs more attention.

December 4, 2024Cleanup, Food, Health Risks, Housing, Lead, Paint, Pipes, Products, Soil, Water, Workplace

Protecting Kids from Lead: 10 Reasons to be Thankful

There have been many wins in 2024, and we are excited to review them.

November 11, 2024Air, Cleanup, General, Lead

Lead Cleanups: Inspiration from LEAD Agency, Northeast Oklahoma

It is one thing to hear about the damage done by the mines and the massive cleanups underway. It takes a visit to appreciate the vast scale of the sites.

November 8, 2024November 8, 2024Health Risks, Lead, Products

Lead in Blood: CDC’s $1M Competition for Point-of-Care Device Development

There is a need for better point-of-care blood lead testing devices. We encourage all innovators to move forward with their devices.

October 31, 2024October 31, 2024Air, Health Risks, Housing, Lead, Water

White House, EPA Turn Talk into Action: An Unprecedented October

EPA improved its Lead and Copper Rule and revamped its interior dust lead standards, turning years of talk about “no safe level of lead exposure” into policy and action.

October 8, 2024October 8, 2024Lead, Pipes, Water

Lead in Water: All Lead Service Lines to be Replaced!

EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Improvement is a major step to a safer future for everyone who drinks tap water in America.

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