Sentence examples for deteriorated lead from inspiring English sources

Of those, an estimated 24 million units had deteriorated lead paint, dust lead, or bare soil contaminated with lead (Jacobs et al. 2002).

Even in Superfund sites where old mining and smelter wastes have resulted in very high soil lead levels, efforts that do not also address deteriorated lead paint often are disappointing.

Studies of the effectiveness of soil removal in urban residential areas without addressing deteriorated lead paint have demonstrated that the "soil-only" approach being recommended by Laidlaw et al. (2005) is of limited value (U.S. EPA 1996).

The most common external source of exposure in children is deteriorated lead-based paint dust (CDC 1997).

However, the major pathway of exposure for children is from deteriorated lead-based paint and lead-contaminated dust in the home that is ingested during normal hand-to-mouth behavior (CDC 2007; Lanphear et al. 1998).

Laidlaw et al. (2005) did not cite the compelling body of scientific evidence demonstrating that deteriorated lead-based paint and the contaminated dust and soil it generates is highly correlated with BPb levels in children.

Indeed, Laidlaw et al. failed to recognize the enlightened statutory definition of the term "lead-based paint hazard," which includes not only deteriorated lead-based paint but also interior settled house dust and bare soil.

Fourteen percent of all houses had significantly deteriorated lead-based paint, and 16%and7%7%, respectively, had dust lead and soil lead levels above current standards of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Exposure pathway studies revealed that children were most commonly exposed to deteriorated lead-based paint and the contaminated settled house dust and soil it generated (Bornschein et al. 1987; Charney 1983; Lanphear and Roghmann 1997; Lanphear et al. 1998), although the very earliest studies had also suggested the importance of contaminated dust and soil from paint (Gibson 1904).

Specifically, the law the Council passed lowered the age for children to be protected by the statute and eliminated the regulation of dust from deteriorating lead paint as a health hazard, among other changes.

Growing children can suffer brain damage from eating lead paint chips or, more commonly, from putting their hands in their mouth after touching dust that comes from deteriorating lead paint, said David C. Palmer, an environmental justice advocate for the New York Public Interest Research Group, a plaintiff in the case.