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	Lead Paint New York Attorneys. Lead Poison Injury Lawyers, NY. Chelation, Exposure to Children, Toxic Paint
		Even though lead as an ingredient in paint has been prohibited for almost 25 years in the United States, more than 50 percent of children living in cities continue to be exposed to lead paint in their homes and environment.
		Lead can get into the air, water, food, soil and even dust, and can be breathed or swallowed leading to serious health problems, especially for young children.
		The treatment for childhood lead poisoning, known as chelation, often involves a painful hospital procedure of injections that causes lead to be excreted in the urine.
	www.belluckfox.com /lead-paint.html (1049 words)

	Lead Poisoning - NSC
		Anytime a surface containing lead paint is worked on, the debris and the dust created by the work must be contained and thoroughly cleaned up, and those doing the work must have adequate personal protection to prevent them from breathing in any lead dust generated by the work.
		Occupations related to house painting, welding, renovation and remodeling activities, smelters, firing ranges, the manufacture and disposal of car batteries, and the maintenance and repair of bridges and water towers, are particularly at risk for lead exposure.
		Exposure to lead is estimated by measuring levels of lead in the blood (in micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood).
	www.nsc.org /library/facts/lead.htm (2958 words)

	LEAD & LEAD PAINT
		Lead poisoning is a top environmental health hazard for young children, affecting as many as 1.7 million children age five and under, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.
		Although lead-based house paint has long since been taken off the market, children living in older homes are threatened by chipping or peeling lead paint, or excessive amounts of lead-contaminated dust.
		Because the presence of lead paint in a home is a threat to children, the "Residential Lead-Based Paint Disclosure Program" (Title X) provides protection to both renters and buyers.
	www.epa.gov /region02/health/leadpoisoning.htm (746 words)

	Lead in Paint, Dust, and Soil \| Lead in Paint, Dust, and Soil \| OPPT \| OPPTS \| US EPA
		Lead is a highly toxic metal that was used for many years in products found in and around our homes.
		Lead may cause a range of health effects, from behavioral problems and learning disabilities, to seizures and death.
		The Agency's Lead Awareness Program continues to work to protect human health and the environment against the dangers of lead by developing regulations, conducting research, and designing educational outreach efforts and materials.
	www.epa.gov /lead (472 words)

	Lead Paint Inspectors of Florida
		Lead poisoning, the number one environmental health threat to children under the age of 6, is entirely avoidable.
		Lead paint is the major source of lead poisoning in the United States.
		Peeling paint and dust caused by lead paint chips are either inhaled by children or eaten by children.
	www.leadpaintinspectors.com /index.html (725 words)

	Louisville Paint Poisoning Attorney :: Lead Based Paint Injury :: Shelbyville, Kentucky Lead Paint Lawyer
		Lead exposure is especially devastating to fetuses and young children.
		Aside from the ingestion of lead paint chips, soil and dust are significant sources of lead exposure during play activity and inhalation.
		Lead-based paint which chips and peels or flakes away from the exterior walls of buildings is a primary source of lead contamination.
	www.kytriallaw.com /lawyer-attorney-1114316.html (384 words)

	NRDC: Lead Paint in Schools FAQ
		Paint that is peeling or chipping poses an immediate safety hazard for young children, since eating even one paint chip can lead poison a child.
		Intact lead paint is still a potential problem, because eventually it will deteriorate, and in the meantime it may be releasing lead dust.
		The CDC develops programs and policies to prevent childhood lead poisoning, educates the public and health care providers, provides funding to state and local health departments, and supports research to determine the effectiveness of prevention efforts at the federal, state, and local levels.
	www.nrdc.org /health/kids/qleadsch.asp (975 words)

	New York Lead Paint Lawyers / NY Injury Attorney, Poisoning, Toxic Exposure, Hazardous Products
		Exposure to lead-based paint is the primary source of lead poisoning, especially in children, and in urban centers like New York where housing is older, the health risks are higher.
		When lead is present in the blood, it means it is interfering, blocking or competing with enzymes and nutrients that are essential for the body to correctly function.
		If a woman had been exposed to enough lead as a child, pregnancy can cause the lead to be released from her bones, where it is stored, and easily transferred to the fetus.
	www.lead-paint-lawyers-new-york.com (841 words)

	Louisville Lead Paint Lawyer :: Lead Based Paint Cases :: Jefferson County, Kentucky Poisoning Injury Attorney
		Once the source of the lead was identified, HAL was required to abate the lead, or in the alternative, move the child and his family to a lead-free environment within 14 days.
		The peeling and flaking paint was tested at 47% lead on the east wall and 61% lead on the north wall (1% lead requires abatement under the law).
		Lead poisoning has been shown over the course of many years, in scores of studies, to cause neurologic damage resulting in reduction in intelligence and other neuropsychological disorders such as ADHD.
	www.kytriallaw.com /lawyer-attorney-1114291.html (525 words)

	Green Building Encyclopedia - Environmental Paint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Paint is a common finish applied to buildings for a variety of reasons including preserving materials.
		Conventional paints are the most significant producer of indoor air quality problems.
		This is a result of the fact that paint begins as a liquid but must dry.
	www.whygreenbuildings.com /environmental_paint.php (162 words)

	Lead Poisoning - Definition, Description, Demographics, Causes and symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prognosis, Prevention
		Without knowing it, people may have lead in the paint, dust, or soil around their homes or in their drinking water, since lead cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted.
		A 2003 study of cases of lead poisoning in pregnant women found that 70 percent of affected people were Hispanics, most of whom had absorbed the lead from their pottery.
		Evidence as of 2004 suggested that lead may be harmful to children even at low levels that were once thought to be safe, and the risk of damage rises as blood levels of lead increase.
	www.healthofchildren.com /L/Lead-Poisoning.html (2547 words)

	IAQ Fact Sheet: Lead
		Lead is a highly toxic metal that produces a range of adverse health effects particularly in young children.
		Lead can leach into drinking water from certain types of plumbing materials (lead pipes, copper pipes with lead solder, and brass faucets) and can also be found on walls, woodwork, and the outside of your home in the form of lead-based paint.
		Lead inspectors use XRF (x-ray) instruments to determine content of lead in paint immediately.
	www.nsc.org /ehc/indoor/lead.htm (1156 words)

	Wall paint outstrips toys as lead source -- baltimoresun.com
		But the more serious lead hazard isn't what is being brought inside the house but what has been there all along: lead paint.
		Experts agree that most of the lead poisoning cases can be attributed to lead paint in homes, though lead in toys, cheap jewelry and candy might play roles in some cases.
		She said there would be no talk of lead chipping off Big Bird toys if the use of lead paint was prohibited everywhere.
	www.baltimoresun.com /news/nation/bal-te.lead07aug07,0,7511324.story?track=rss (755 words)

	Lead - New York State Department of Health
		Lead can get into the air, water, food, soil, and even dust and then can be breathed or swallowed leading to serious health problems, especially for young children.
		Lead enters the body when children breathe lead dust or lead fumes, or swallow something with lead in it.
		In nearly all cases, lead dust is either breathed in, or taken in as dust licked off surfaces or in swallowed paint chips that contain lead.
	www.health.state.ny.us /environmental/lead/index.htm (698 words)

	Missouri Lead Paint Poisoning Attorneys – Personal Injury Lawyers, Brain Damage, Kidney Disease
		Childhood lead poisoning in the United States is predominantly caused by ingesting lead paint.
		While it’s true that lead paint cases are difficult ones, the greater truth is that they are cases that lawyers can and do win.
		Lead paint cases require hard work to succeed but when successful they can produce substantial rewards for the people injured by this dangerous substance.
	www.brownandcrouppen.com /lead_poisoning.html (531 words)

	Lead Paint Standing Orders
		All civil cases related to lead paint shall remain pending in the judicial district in which they are filed, subject to the provisions of this case management order, any future case management orders and further order of the Chief Court Administrator.
		In all pending civil cases in which a claim of damages resulting from lead paint exposure has been made, disclosure pursuant to IV.1 shall be made within 21 days of the issuance of this order unless already provided, subject to any prior protective orders already issued in the case.
		Declaratory judgment actions related to an underlying civil case seeking damages resulting from lead paint exposure may be continued at the discretion of the undersigned.
	www.jud.state.ct.us /external/super/StandOrders/leadpaint.htm (950 words)

	The Coatings Laboratory's Lead Page
		Waste from paint removal such as spent abrasive which is suspected to contain Lead must be tested for leachable Lead prior to disposal.
		The concentration of Lead that will leach from a spent abrasive will depend on the type of Lead pigment and binder resin in the removed paint, the age of the paint and the type of abrasive used.
		Lead concentrations of more than 500 ppm in surface soil may result in it having to be removed and treated as a Hazardous Waste.
	www.paintlab.com /pbrules.html (749 words)

	Lead Paint Lawyers - Epidemiology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The interior paint was badly deteriorated with paint chips visibly flaking from the walls and accumulating on floors, windowsills, and stairs.
		Because lead encephalopathy in a child can rapidly progress to death, either a BLL greater than or equal to 70 ug divided by L in a child or the onset of encephalopathy constitutes an acute medical emergency.
		Although childhood deaths from poisoning associated with exposure to lead-based paint are now rare in the United States (4) (the most recently reported lead-based paint-associated death occurred in the mid-1970s (5)), subclinical toxicity is a widespread and persistent public health problem (6).
	www.weitzlux.com /lead/leadpaint/epidemiology_941.html (1018 words)

	abc7news.com: Toy Recall Raises Red Flag on Chinese-Made Toys
		The lead paint on 83 different Mattel toys didn't come to light until a European retailer reported it.
		Fake pearl necklaces are often coated in lead paint and painted toys.
		Even if your child's lead level is below the federal standard, he or she may not be in the clear.
	abclocal.go.com /kgo/story?section=alerts_recalls&id=5544093 (667 words)

	Lead-Based Paint Rules, Regulations and Hazard Disclosure
		The use of lead to raise the octane in gasoline and the manufacture and use of lead-based paint in housing was finally prohibited in the U.S. in 1978
		The Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act, commonly known as Title X (Ten), was enacted in the U.S. 1992 and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations implementing Title X as to rental property were implemented in September and December of 1996.
		Lead levels fell dramatically when the lead was taken out of gasoline, water pipes and voluntarily removed from food cans.
	rhol.org /rental/lead/lead-paint.htm (426 words)

	What You Should Know About Lead Based Paint in Your Home: Safety Alert
		Because the early symptoms of lead poisoning are easy to confuse with other illnesses, it is difficult to diagnose lead poisoning without medical testing.
		Lead was used as a pigment and drying agent in "alkyd" oil based paint.
		The new paint may also partially mix with the lead-based paint, and lead dust will be released when the new paint begins to deteriorate.
	www.cpsc.gov /cpscpub/pubs/5054.html (1606 words)

	Lead Paint
		Rhode Island is the first state to sue the paint companies by claiming they caused a public nuisance by selling lead paint, which is known to cause a range of health problems, especially in children.
		Santa Clara County's lawsuit accusing the paint industry of exposing children to dangerous levels of lead paint has survived a key legal hurdle, although a judge has indicated that the case against the paint companies may be scaled back.
		While this is not a substitute for formal lead paint training, it is a well written and informative guide that will improve the safety of your repair projects.
	www.apartmentassoc.org /recent/lead.htm (2703 words)

	ATSDR - ToxFAQs™: Lead
		Lead is a naturally occurring bluish-gray metal found in small amounts in the earth's crust.
		Lead itself does not break down, but lead compounds are changed by sunlight, air, and water.
		A blood test is available to measure the amount of lead in your blood and to estimate the amount of your recent exposure to lead.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /tfacts13.html (1190 words)

	Safety and Health Topics: Lead
		Of the overexposures in industry, lead is one of the most common and is a leading cause of workplace illness.
		In general populations, lead may be present in hazardous concentrations in food, water, and air.
		Lead poisoning is the leading environmentally induced illness in children.
	www.osha.gov /SLTC/lead/index.html (260 words)

	MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Lead poisoning
		Lead used to be very common in gasoline and house paint in the U.S. Although these items are no longer made with lead in them, lead is still a health problem.
		Lead paint is very dangerous when it is being stripped or sanded.
		Lead can be found in drinking water in homes whose pipes were connected with lead solder.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/002473.htm (1332 words)

	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of University Safety and Assurances -- Lead Paint Information
		Lead paint results are reported in either mass loading (milligrams lead per square centimeter), or mass concentration (parts per million, parts per billion, or percent by weight).
		Paint for bridges and marine use may contain greater amounts of lead (ATSDR, 2000).
		Please Note: Regardless of which definition is used, exposure to airborne lead or lead dust contamination may still occur as a result of removing paint or other surface coatings that contain even small amounts of lead.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/EHSRM/ASB/leadpaint.html (661 words)

	Lead Paint
		They gave lip service to the idea that lead poisoning is a real problem and that the lead paint in America’s homes should really be abated the expensive way — eventually.
		They know that if harsh lead laws are enforced, it will be a disaster for the poorest of the poor who live in the least expensive, most marginal housing in the nation.
		What’s crazy is that they all know that aggressive lead paint abatement is dead, that it is impossible to remove the lead paint from every American home that has it.
	www.spoa.com /pages/lead2.html (1100 words)

	Lead in Paint
		The amount of lead in paint was reduced in 1950 and further reduced again in 1978.
		Houses built before 1950 are very likely to contain lead paint while houses built after 1950 will have less lead in the paint.
		Lead-based paint is the most common source of lead poisoning in children.
	www.in.gov /isdh/programs/lead/news_paint.htm (582 words)

	Lead Paint in Massachusetts: A Pathfinder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Law Reporter 410 (Sept. 19, 1994) A property manager is not an owner within the meaning of the lead paint act.
		Lead Poisoning Litigation: Strategic Tips for Developing an Effective Claim and Defending an Action, MCLE, 1993.
		Public health fact sheets, downloadable forms, introduction to the lead law, guides, and questions and answers available at their web site.
	www.lawlib.state.ma.us /lead.html (428 words)

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		Lead poisoning can cause permanent damage to the brain and many other organs and causes reduced intelligence and behavioral problems.
		Sellers and landlords must disclose known lead-based paint and lead-based paint hazards and provide available reports to buyers or renters.
		For a copy of Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home, the sample disclosure forms, or the rule, call the National Lead Information Clearinghouse (NLIC) at (800) 424-LEAD, or TDD (800) 526-5456 for the hearing impaired.
	www.re.state.az.us /leadfacts.html (760 words)

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