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Updated Recall
List: Lead in Children's Toys and Products (7-11-08)
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Childhood Lead Exposure Associated With Criminal Behavior in
Adulthood !
New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) reports the
first evidence of a direct link between prenatal and early-childhood
lead exposure and an increased risk for criminal behavior later in
life.
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Know
Your Home……Protect Your Family from Lead Poisoning (PDF)
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As summertime approaches, many of us focus on improving our
home environments. As you begin to open and close your windows and
doors, paint, or renovate your home, be aware of the age of the
property you are working on; If it was built before 1978, it can be
a source of lead-based paint exposure.
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RI
High-stakes Lead Paint Case to Rhode Island Supreme Court
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Three companies that once made lead paint have spent nearly a
decade fighting off a lawsuit that could force them to pay billions
to clean up contaminated properties. The case heads to the Rhode
Island Supreme Court on Thursday, more than two years after a jury
found that Sherwin-Williams, NL Industries Inc. and Millennium
Holdings LLC were liable for creating a public nuisance in the first
verdict of its kind.
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MI
Local Churches Lead
Charge Against Lead Poisoning (PDF) !
Cleansing Saginaw area homes of their lead poisoning
potential sits atop the agenda for some local religious leaders. The
Faith Based Lead Poisoning Prevention Project stemmed from these
individuals’ desire to improve public health, said the Rev. Marvin
Smith, pastor of Mount Olive Institutional Baptist Church.
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District Connects Lead
with Special Ed
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Galveston Independent School District has too many African-American
students in its special education program, a problem that has earned
the island’s schools extra scrutiny from the Texas Education Agency.
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Plan to
Eliminate Childhood Lead Poisoning in Michigan
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Michigan Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control
Commission, June 30, 2007
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Wisconsin Lead Lawsuits go to U.S. Court
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Too Many
Children on Medicaid Not Tested for Lead Poisoning
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In Ohio HMOs are paid a lump sum fee, in advance, for delivery of
Medicaid services. Researchers at the Government Accounting Office
found that the system creates "an incentive to underserve or even deny
beneficiaries access to needed care since plans ... can profit from
not delivering services" (GAO 1997). Some 47,000 Medicaid-eligible
children are born in Ohio each year (OHPa 2004). Considering this
profit incentive not to screen, it is not surprising that in Ohio, the
blood lead screening rate for one and two year-olds has yet to exceed
40% despite the requirement for HMOs to screen 100% of these children.
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MI
Michigan Lead Commission Report (PDF)
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The Report to the Legislature from the Michigan Childhood Lead
Poisoning Prevention and Control Commission has been released and is
now available online.
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MI
Key Differences Among Professional Lead Services
(PDF)
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This chart explains the differences among the 3 types of
professional services available to detect lead in your home - the Lead
Hazard Screen, the Lead Inspection, and the Risk Assessment.
