Lead - Useful Information - Governments
Australia: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
- lead: basic information on lead as well as specific information on lead paint
- lead page
- lead in house paint
- lead in marine paints
- lead and the environment
- lead in auto paints
- lead and your health
Canada: Health Canada
- lead-based paint (English)
- peinture à base de plomb (French)
Mexico
- Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (Search: plomo en pinturas - lead paint)
- Secretaría de Salud
- Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios (Search: plomo en pinturas - lead paint)
United Kingdom: Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
U.S.A.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- lead – basic information on lead as well as specific information on lead paint (English)
- lead – basic information on lead as well as specific information on lead paint (Spanish)
- Childhood lead poisoning
- Preventing lead poisoning in young children.
- Managing elevated blood lead levels among young children: recommendations from the advisory committee on childhood lead poisoning prevention. Atlanta. 2002
US Consumer Product Safety Commission
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- About Lead-Based Paint
- "Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home" - brochure available in:
- Guidelines for the evaluation and control of lead-based paint hazards in housing. Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Video – Healthy Homes for Healthy Kids - video available in:
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- lead in the workplace – basic information on lead as well as specific information on lead paint
- PROTECTING WORKERS EXPOSED TO LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARDS. A Report to Congress. DHHS (NIOSH) PUBLICATION NO. 98-112, January 1997
- Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance (ABLES)
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
New York Department of Health and Hygiene
New York State Department of Health
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Parks Service
USEPA
- lead – basic information on lead as well as specific information on lead paint (English)
- lead – basic information on lead as well as specific information on lead paint (Spanish)
- SW846: Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods. Method 6200: Field Portable X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry for the Determination of Elemental Concentrations in Soil and Sediment. 2007
California Department of Public Health’s Occupational Health Branch (OHB)
- Lead Poisoning and Prevention
- Workplace Hazard Alert: New Health Dangers from Lead
- Alerta – Peligro del Trabajo: Nuevos Peligros del Plomo
- Medical Guidelines for the Lead-Exposed Worker
- Indecent Exposure: Lead Puts Workers and Families at Risk, Health Research for Action, UCB - Perspectives
- Lead’s Revenge! ¡La Venganza del Plomo!