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Publication Review

Title: Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home
Author: US EPA, 1995
File: Free Guide, PDF 236 KB, 16 pages
Audience: For homeowners and renters.

Review
Guide to the typical problems associated with lead in the home environment.

Issues covered include:

• why lead is bad, effects of lead in the body
• how lead enters the body
• how to check your family for high levels of lead
• lead paint, where it is found, when it becomes a problem
• lead dust
• lead in soils
• testing
• how to protect family from lead hazards, an action plan
• how to reduce lead hazards
• remodeling or renovating concerns
• lead in drinking water, toys, hobbies and other sources
• state health agencies and other resources
  

Detail drawings include:

• basic sketches relating to text

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