LOL, don't lick the paint.
Posted on 08/28/2009 3:29:50 PM PDT by Cindy
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THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28TH, 2009 AT 1:45 PM EPA Lead Poisoning Prevention Video Contest Posted by Steve Owens
Grab your video camera and get the lead out!
The dangers of lead poisoning are very serious, and health problems caused by lead can impact a child for a lifetime.
We want you to help us get the word out about lead poisoning prevention, by creating videos to educate people on what they can do to prevent lead poisoning. We’re looking for 30-60 second video on anything from the dangers of lead poisoning; how to get rid of lead hazards in homes; or the importance of children being tested for harmful levels of lead in their blood.
Entries will be accepted until October 1st.
We’ll post the best videos on the EPA, HUD and CDC web sites to get the message out about lead poisoning. The best video will receive a $2,500 First Prize.
Most importantly, you’ll be helping us get the word out on an important health issue.
In young children, lead exposure can cause learning disabilities, decreased intelligence, as well as speech, language, and behavioral problems. In older children and adults, brain and nervous system disorders, high blood pressure, and reproductive problems have all been associated with lead exposure.
EPA is taking action on a number of fronts to protect children from the lead dangers. We’ll be proposing new requirements to protect children from lead-based paint poisoning including requiring more buildings to use lead-safe work practices during renovation projects, and requiring tests to ensure the renovation cleanup work meets EPA lead dust standards.
We’re also working to address lead exposures associated with the manufacture of lead wheel weights used to balance tires. That will help prevent more than 2,000 tons of lead from being released into the environment from tire weights that fall off of automobiles.
But we need your help in getting the word out. Please send us your best, most creative video to help to inspire individuals, businesses, communities, and everyone else to avoid dangerous exposure to lead.
Remember: all entries are due October 1st, and First Prize is $2500.
Read the details at here.
We look forward to seeing your video and thanks for helping to protect kids from lead poisoning.
Steve Owens is EPA Assistant Administrator for Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances
I grew up with lead based paint and aside from the drooling, the twitchy leg, my right eye crossed and the inevitable inability to dance (hey, I’m a white guy), lead paint didn’t bother me at all...
You probably took your vitamins and played outside when you were a kid.
Vitamin D supplements/sun curtails high lead levels.
Lead concentrations in kids go up in the winter, it was studied and proven in the 70’s yet we need to spend Billions of dollars to strip lead based surfaces from everything.
As in global warming ~ it’s the sun stupid :)
(oh, and they lowered the lead threshold, like the cholesterol levels - take your pills)
Just Say No!
I am diligently working to return lead, normally 230 grains at a time, to the earth.
I have some household lead hazards. I buy lead in 70 pound increments that arrive in those handy USPS boxes. If one of those were to fall on a child it could be hurtful. I leave them on the floor in the garage to keep children safe.
More seriously, those lost lead wheel weights are as much of a hazard as all those civil war bullets found in local fields here in NC. In a short time they oxidize on the outside and will rest quietly under the soil for a hundred years or more.
“You probably took your vitamins and played outside when you were a kid.”
I was never inside and having a slovak mom, we always ate well..
LOL, don't lick the paint.
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