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- Alliance To End Childhood Lead Poisoning - A non-profit public interest organization dedicated to eradicating childhood lead poisoning. Extensive information on lead, safety, home, poisoning, renovating, decorating, remodeling, painting, child lead safety.
www.aeclp.org
- California Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch - A children's environmental health program offering multi-layered solutions to this complex problem.
www.childlead.com
- CDC Lead Poisoning Prevention Program - About lead poisoning and U.S. government efforts to protect children from lead exposure. From the National Center for Environmental Health of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/lead.htm
- Child Lead Poisoning and the Lead Industry - Provides a history of child lead poisoning in the U.S. and the role of the lead paint industry.
sueleadindustry.homestead.com
- CLEARCorps: Protecting Children From Lead Poisoning - National AmeriCorps program helping families and communities protect their children from lead poisoning. Provides information about program, services, news, affiliates and membership.
www.clearcorps.org
- Connecticut Lead Hazard Awareness Coalition - Provides information to educate families, public and private health care providers, about lead and it's hazards, treatment, and resources in Connecticut compiled by state and local communities.
home.cshore.com/ctlead
- Environment Arica Chile - Information on lead contamination in Arica Chile.
www.angelfire.com/mn2/plomo
- Investigation and Surveillance Section - Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) info on lead and pesticide poisoning, indoor air quality, and other environmental health concerns of a non-infectious nature.
www.hs.state.az.us/edc/oeh/inv&surv.htm
- Keep Kids Healthy Guide to Lead Poisoning - Includes a lead screening quiz, discussion of risk factors, preventing exposure, and treatment options. Intended primarily for parents.
www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/lead.html
- Lead and Health - ACSH update on lead and its effects on human health.
www.acsh.org/publications/booklets/lead_update.html
- Lead Exposure Harms Millions More Children Than Thought - Millions more children and adolescents in the United States than previously thought endure the detrimental effects of exposure to lead, according to a new Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati study.
www.cincinnatichildrens.org/media_center/newsreleases/2000/5/5_8_00_lead.asp
- Lead Poisoning - Provides information concerning lead poisoning of the citizens of the City of Bremerton and Kitsap County in Washington State.
oc.itgo.com/lead
- Lead Poisoning Prevention Outreach Program - U.S. government program to give community-based organizations the tools and skills to plan and execute successful lead poisoning prevention programs in their communities.
www.nsc.org/ehc/lead.htm
- Lead Poisoning: Sorting Myths From Realities - American Council on Science and Health editorial says that "lead poisoning" is not the serious public health problem it is alleged to be.
www.drkoop.com/news/focus/feb/lead.html
- Lead Prevention - San Francisco Children's Environmental Health Promotion (CEHP) childhood lead prevention program information.
www.dph.sf.ca.us/cehp/Lead/lead.htm
- Living Safely With Lead - Australian Lead Reference Centre for lead, health and the environment.
www.epa.nsw.gov.au/leadsafe/index.htm
- Medline Plus: Lead Poisoning - U.S. National Library of Medicine information on lead poisoning with links to reviews and articles.
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/leadpoisoning.html
- Multnomah County Health Department Lead Poisoning Prevention Program - Provides description of Oregon county community based services to those at risk for lead poisoning.
www.co.multnomah.or.us/health/lead
- Nutrition And Childhood Lead Poisoning, HYG-5536-93 - Ohio State University Extension fact sheet on the subject.
ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5536.html
- Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children - Adverse effects of lead in young children are showing at increasingly lower blood lead levels. Detection and management info from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control.
aepo-xdv-www.epo.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/p0000029/entire.htm
- The Hour of Lead - Introduction and footnotes of a book by Peter Reich, Environmental Defense Fund. A brief history of lead poisoning in the United States.
www.environmentaldefense.org/pubs/Reports/hourlead.html#fnote3
- The LEAD Group Inc Lead Advisory Service Australia - Lead poisoning information aiming to eliminate childhood lead poisoning in Australia by the year 2002 and to protect the environment from lead.
www.lead.org.au
- The Maine Lead Action Project - An awareness organization striving to eradicate childhood lead poisoning through education, support, and assistance. Provide information about the hazards of lead poisoning.
www.maineleadaction.org
- U.S. EPA Lead Programs - Information and analysis on hazards of residential lead exposure for children exposed to deteriorating lead-based paint, lead contaminated dust, and lead contaminated residential soil. EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.
www.epa.gov/lead
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