Abstract

I read the AAP's recent statement, "Acute and Chronic Childhood Lead Poisoning,"1 with disappointment verging on alarm. The statement recommends that "the major emphasis . . . be placed on the testing of dwellings for lead-pigment paints . . . in order to identify high-risk areas." Yet many such areas, or "lead belts," have long been so correctly identified that 20 to 40% of young children screened from these areas have been shown to have blood lead values of 40 µg/100 ml or more.2

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