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Category: Lead

April 3, 2025April 8, 2025Air, Housing, Lead

Lead-Based Paint: Updating Risk Assessments for Dust-Lead Under EPA’s 2024 Rule

Navigating and communicating the changes can be difficult. Here are some tips.

April 1, 2025April 1, 2025Food, Health Risks

Lead in Food: New Study Shows High Lead Levels in Prenatal Vitamins

This research will aid states like California to lead the way on increasing consumer transparency and incentivizing companies to compete for better products.

March 9, 2025March 19, 2025Health Risks, Lead, Societal Benefits

Societal Benefits of Reducing Lead: Estimating Value of Fewer Premature CVD-Related Deaths

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., so even a small reduction in the risk can yield significant benefits for society.

March 7, 2025March 13, 2025Food, Health Risks, Lead, Societal Benefits

Unleaded Kids Asks Feds to Push Harder for Tighter Int’l Lead Standards for Spices

Codex sets weak international standards so at least 95% of ingredients will pass.

March 4, 2025March 20, 2025Health Risks, Lead, Societal Benefits

Societal Benefits of Reducing Lead: Calculating IQ-Related Increased Lifetime Earnings

Spotting the loss of an IQ point in a child is not possible. However, powerful statistical tools enable us to “see” the loss in terms of public health and societal impacts.

March 3, 2025March 6, 2025General, Lead, Societal Benefits

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

January 15, 2025February 25, 2025Food

Lead in Baby Food: FDA Sets Action Levels, But Loopholes Limit Impact

Recommendations do not jibe with spirit of Closer to Zero Initiative.

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.

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Unleaded Kids, a nonprofit, strives to address major gaps in lead policy in the United States.


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