Residential dust lead levels and the risk of childhood lead poisoning in United States children.

CONCLUSIONS: The EPA's residential dust lead regulations place children at increased risk of lead poisoning. We recommend adopting more protective dust lead standards. IMPACT: We determined whether children are at increased risk of lead poisoning with the 2019 EPA residential post-abatement lead clearance standards being higher than dust lead hazard standards.In this observational study, 2019 EPA dust lead clearance standards were associated with increased risk of lead poisoning compared to the revised dust lead hazard standard. Both EPA standards were associated with increased risk of lead poisoning compared to more stringent standards employed in our study.Extrapolating our findings to US children, the 2019 EPA dust lead clearance standards could place up to 36,700 children at risk of lead poisoning. PMID: 32722664 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Pediatric Research - July 27, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Braun JM, Yolton K, Newman N, Jacobs DE, Taylor M, Lanphear BP Tags: Pediatr Res Source Type: research