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For help, contact . . .
If you have any questions, want more information or suspect someone you know has been exposed to high amounts of lead or has lead poisoning, contact:
- National Lead Information Center (NLIC) at 1 (800) LEADFYI. Operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by the National Safety Council's Environmental Health Center with funding from the U.S. EPA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Defense.
- National Lead Information Center Clearinghouse at 1 (800) 424-LEAD or (202) 833-1071. Specialists give detailed information or answer specific questions Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m Eastern Time. (Hearing impaired call 1 (800) 526-5456).
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1 (800) 426-4791.
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Department of Job Safety and Health at (202) 219-8151.
- Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning at (202) 543-1147.
- List of state and city programs, agencies and organizations.
- Louisiana Office of Public Health at (504) 765-0219
- New Orleans Health Department Lead Poisoning Prevention Program at (504) 565-8188 (Lead poisoning pamphlet, information, prevention, detection and treatment).
Government Agencies/Programs
- The Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance Program (ABLES), Centers for Disease Control's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (1 (800) 35-NIOSH).
- Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, California Department of Health Services
- Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Office of Lead Hazard Control, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Education/Prevention
- Simple things you can do to prevent childhood lead poisoning, The Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, California Department of Health Services.
- Protect your family from lead in your home. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA 47-K-94-001. Washington, D.C. 1995. 14 pps.
- Lead poisoning prevention steps. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Lead Hazard Control.
- Lead poisoning and your children. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA 800-B-92-002. February 1995.
- Lead, Healthfinder's Environmental Health.
- Ten tips to protect children form pesticide and lead poisonings around the home. 1997. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Publication: 735-F97001. Available from the National Center for Environmental Publications and Information at (513) 4898190.
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Identifies and regulates health hazards in consumer products. Search for lead.
- CPSC finds lead poisoning hazard for young children in imported vinyl miniblinds
- Lead paint on public playground equipment
- Questions and answers: lead paint on public playground equipment
- What you should know about lead based paint in your home, Publication #5054: Safety Alert
- Hazards of "do it yourself" removal of lead-based paint, Publication #5055: Safety Alert
Articles and reports
- Update: Blood lead levels - United States, 1991-1994. 1997. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 46(February 21):141-146.
- Moving toward a lead-safe America. 1997. Department of Housing and Urban Development, (February 22).
- Brody, D.J., J.L. Pirkle, R.A. Kramer, K.M. Flegal, T.D. Matte, E.W. Gunter, D.C. Paschal. 1994. Blood lead levels in the US Population: Phase I of the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III, 1988-1991). Journal of American Medical Association, 272(July 27):277-283
- Centers for Disease Control. 1991. Preventing lead poisoning in young children: A statement by the Centers of Disease Control. Atlanta, GA:Department of Health and Human Services.
- Goldman, L.R. and J. Carra. 1994. Childhood lead poisoning in 1994 (Editorial). Journal of the American Medical Association. 272(July 27):315-316.
- Jirles, B., J. Thigpen, D. Forsythe. 1997. Lead in drinking water: A preventive solution. Environmental Health Perspective, 105(January):15.
- Kessel, I. and J. O'Connor. 1997. Getting the lead out. Plenum Publishing.
- Meadows, Robin. 1996. Growing pains. Environmental Health Perspectives, 104(February):146-149.
- Menkes, D.B. and J.P. Fawcett. 1997. Too easily lead? Health effects of gasoline additives. Environmental Health Perspectives, 105(March):270-273.
- Mielke, H.W. 1997. Leaded dust in urban soil shown to be greater source of childhood lead poisoning than leaded paint. Lead Perspectives, (March/April):28-31.
- Mielke, H. W., M.D. Taylor, C.R. Gonzales, M.K. Smith, P.V. Daniels and A.V. Buckner. 1997. Lead based hair products: Too hazardous for household use. Journal of American Pharmaceutical Association. NS37(Jan/Feb):85-89.
- Montaque, P. 1997. Bad decisions again and again. Rachel's Environmental Health Weekly. #541(April 10). Online: http://www.monitor.net.rachel.
- Nriagu, J.O. 1990. The rise and fall of leaded gasoline. The Science of the Total Environment. 92:13-28.
- Pirkle, J.L., D.J. Brody, E.W. Gunter, R.A. Kramer, D.C. Paschal, K.M. Flegal, T.D. Matte. 1994. The decline in blood lead levels in the United States. Journal of the American Medical Association. 272(July 27):284-291.
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