Lead exposure sources and public health investigations for children with elevated blood lead in England, 2014 to 2022 Results There were 340 cases in our study: the majority were aged 1–4 years old (53%) and male (69%). Ethnicity data was poorly recorded. A higher than expected proportion (31%)...

    Also featured on BBC Breakfast and Today.  "There could be a lot of contamination in and around housing, where chickens are kept, where kids play, and those are the kinds of exposures you’d worry about," Bruce Lanphear

Historical books could be a source of Pb exposure where collections are housed or sold and could also be used to improve evaluations of historical indoor pollution. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 

Ayurvedic infertility medicine sends woman to hospital with lead poisoning (55 µg/dL). Live Science.

An article in The I Newspaper by Dean Kirby with input from the LEAPP Alliance. Schoolchildren exposed to drinking water containing dangerous levels of lead (inews.co.uk)

The United States of Lead podcast interviews Tim Pye on the United Kingdom of Lead.   https://twitter.com/usolpod/status/1648699214937858050

The Guardian reports that, in the EU, "a law comes into force in 30 countries in move campaigners hope will stop an estimated 1m waterbirds a year dying of lead poisoning". In the UK, lead ammunition already is banned below the high water mark, designated sites, and specific species, but not all...

On the BBC series "Better" tonight a baby was shown putting its hand on a lead-lined window. Lead could have been tranferred to the hand and then to the mouth. This is of course a real child and a real lead window. No warnings come with lead-decorated windows like this in the UK. We just put them...

I need to add a qualifier to the post below. I repeated the test, but could not reproduce the pink colour. The second test used more vinegar so perhaps the dilution factor was such that the colour is not visible. I also wondered if the vinegar may interfere with the reaction. However, taking one...

Most of my interview on Radio Dacorum can be found here.