Societal Benefits of Reducing Lead: EPA’s All Ages Lead Model Empowers States, Others to Make Decisions
Latest version of EPA tool empowers states and others to make decisions by distilling complicated factors into streamlined blood lead level data
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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.
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.
Using AI to Communicate Lead-Related Investigations—New and Old
Indy’s website takes lead hazard transparency to a new level by leveraging AI.
Lead Outside the USA: USAID’s “Towards a Lead-Free Future”
With a powerful speech in January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power called for a global effort to eliminate toxic lead from consumer goods, stating that “[l]ead poisoning claims a staggering 1.6 million lives each year. That’s more than the deaths caused by malaria and HIV/AIDS combined.”
A New Organization—Unleaded Kids—Aims to Protect Children from Cumulative Impact of Lead from All Sources
Only National Effort Focusing on All Sources of Lead (Washington, DC, December 21, 2023) The scientific consensus is clear: there is no safe level of exposure to lead. Children are […]