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By Anne Peterson • November 21, 2009 Dear Anne: I am writing to provide accurate information about the city's Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Ordinance. The lead ordinance utilizes de-minimus levels to assess lead hazard...
Updated Thursday, November 19, 2009 ; 10:51 AM The Southern Appalachian Labor School presented several meetings. Story by Erin Barnett WHIPPLE -- Researchers from the Southern Appalachian Labor School held a meeting Wednesday,...
A visiting expert on heavy metal poisoning says that lead - like asbestos - has no safe level for human exposure. Bruce Lanphear, a Canadian epidemiologist, says measures must be taken to ratchet down exposure to lead, such as...
Thousands of people are trying to flee a landscape poisoned by decades of lead manufacturing. Within the next year, about 15,000 people will be evacuated from villages around a cluster of lead-production facilities in the Henan...
In a lawsuit filed this morning in Vanderburgh County, two Evansville landlords are being targeted for allegedly refusing to fix a house in which a tenant's child was found to have elevated levels of lead in his blood.
We recently wrote that some 31 million children are at increased risk for food poisoning due to delays in tainted food products being removed from school cafeterias. Now, reports the Associated Press (AP), the House Education...
Updated on 05 November 2009 By Julian Rush The Health and Safety Executive withdraws advice on the dangers of working with lead after a Channel 4 News investigation finds over 100,000 people could be at risk. Channel 4 News has...
HEAVY METAL POISONING: While lead poisoning is a notorious problem, few people are aware that other heavy metals also commonly cause poisoning. This article will cover the clinical signs, sources of and treatments for heavy...
Working with hazardous materials is not an easy task. One has to be well-aware of all the health implications, and should be extra careful so that no accidents occur. All safety precautions must be taken before dealing with...
The town is a legendary, hard-drinking, hard-fighting, Wild West-style place in the remote Queensland outback, famous for cowboys, an annual rodeo and one of the biggest underground mines in the world. Daphne Hare moved to...
