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• Need to Re-evaluate Lead Exposure Limits

  
  The FDDJ Information Center — Authority: 131
  People attending the Construction Safety Campaign (CSC) yearly general meeting passed an unopposed resolution in favour of a ban on lead and import of lead products, along with a resolution to make workplaces lead-free. The resolutions was inspired by recent reports published in Hazard magazine that lead exposure ...
  5 days ago

• Lead Exposure in Children Linked to Permanent Brain Damage: Study

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 507
  New research has confirmed that permanent brain damage can result from lead exposure in children , damaging the impulse-control centers of the brain. The study was presented Tuesday at an annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago, looking at the long-term effects of childhood exposure ...
  1 week ago

• CPSIA, lead and textiles in your life

  
  O ECOTEXTILES — Authority: 107
  What does it take to change human behavior? We have known that lead is poisonous ever since the Romans began sprinkling it on their food as a sweetener.   Lead was used so extensively in Rome (for metal pots, wine urns, water pipes and plates)  that some Romans began to suspect a connection between the metal and ...
  1 week ago

• Hundreds of families relocated over lead poisoning issue

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  BEIJING — China will relocate 1,400 families who live near a smelter that caused lead poisoning in about 850 children this year, state media said Friday
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• Lead Paint Lawsuit Filed Against Two Landlords by Indiana Attorney General

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 507
  The state of Indiana has filed a lawsuit against two landlords, in an attempt to force them to address lead contamination at an Evansville home. The lead paint lawsuit , filed by the Indiana Attorney General last week in Venderburgh Circuit Court, charges that landlords Mark R. Bryan and Tammy A. Bryan have ...
  2 weeks ago

• China Faces Reckoning Over Lead Production

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 620
  Lead poisoning cases have stirred many Chinese to anger, as deaths and related illnesses have shaken the very foundations of their villages. From Barbara Demick for the Los Angeles Times : Now thousands of Chinese are trying to flee a landscape poisoned by decades of lead manufacturing. Within the next year, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Grover’s Accidental Gay Marriage PSA

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 576
  With all the Sesame Street hubbub as of late it seems people (like me) have been watching a TON of old Sesame Street videos.  And with all that watching someone over at boingboing came across a great clip of Grover discussing what marriage is.  What makes the clip stand out is that nowhere in the clip do Grover ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sesame Street Gets a Real Street

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 576
  In celebration of Sesame Street’s 40th Birthday the gang got their own corner in New York City! Now the corner of 64th and Broadway reads 123 Sesame Street and 11/10 is officially Sesame Street Day. This makes me happy for so many reasons but the main one is that Sesame Street’s new corner is right by my ...
  4 weeks ago

• Gout Foods to eat and avoid

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 571
  Many many people suffer from gout – and it is very helpful to know what gout foods to eat and what foods to avoid in order to control and manage gout attacks before they happen. Gout is a condition that inflames the joints in the body, and limits a person’s mobility. It also impacts the [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Baltimore City Lead Paint Lawsuit Results in $2.5M Verdict

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 507
  A brother and sister who grew up in a Baltimore City row house that contained toxic lead paint have been awarded $2.5 million in damages through a Maryland lead poisoning lawsuit . The case was brought on behalf of Dontae Wallace, 20, and Searra Wallace, 17, by their mother Tiffini Wallace. According to a report ...
  4 weeks ago

• 40 Years of Sesame Street: Happy Birthday!!

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 576
  This summer I did a series called 40 Years of Sesame Street in anticipation of the upcoming 40th anniversary of what is probably my favorite TV show of all time, Sesame Street.  Well I am excited to announce the day is finally here at that it is today that Jim Henson’s wonderful brainchild turns 40! To celebrate ...
  5 weeks ago

• Wearing Shoes Inside Can Be Hazardous to Health. Talk About Killer Heels

  
  StyleList Fashion Blog — Authority: 155
  Filed under: Style in the News , Shoes A new study finds ditching your shoes at the door is healthier. Photo: Getty Images Yes, we know. You didnt blow your rent money on an amazing pair of Louboutin pumps just so you could stare at them while you walk around barefoot. But according to a new study, taking ...
  5 weeks ago

• Six Point Six

  
  b.rox — Authority: 125
  The results of last week’s venous blood test came back Friday, indicating our daughter now has 6.6 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. That’s a bit of welcome good news, since it’s a significant reduction from the 13 or 14 indicated by her preliminary screenings three months ago. Had to stretch a bit, ...
  6 weeks ago

• Lead Poisoning Still a Threat to Children From Toys, School Supplies

  
  www.healthycare.in — Authority: 135
  National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (October 18-24) is a good time to remind parents that lead poisoning is still a very real threat to children. Potential lead poisoning in children has been brought to light recently because of recalls of toy, school supplies, and other items intended for children because they ...
  6 weeks ago

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