----- Original Message -----

From: egroup@...

To: LeadWorkers@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:12 AM

Subject: Re: [LeadWorkers] Is full lead paint removal the best public health policy? Article on lead & brain cancer

So what you're saying then Mike, is that, if children are lucky enough to live with a person who is professionally trained in OH&S to deal with lead safely and if those parents apply that training to their renovation techniques and their parenting, and if they have their kids routinely blood lead tested when they are little so they know that their methods really are lead safe, then repainting over the top of the lead paint is fine? I think that just leaves the vast majority of the population for whom a public health policy of full paint removal is essential!

I just received another scarey article on the impacts of lead poisoning in workers, which adds to the argument for much better OH&S training regarding lead.

Link to article abstract on lead and brain cancer.

http://www.rxpgnews.com/cancer/brain/article_4897.shtml

The article begins:

People who are routinely exposed to lead on the job are 50 percent more likely to die from brain cancer than people who are not exposed, according to a University of Rochester Medical Center study.

Regards

Elizabeth O'Brien

 

----- Original Message -----

From: michael circle

To: LeadWorkers@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:10 AM

Subject: Re: [LeadWorkers] Is full lead paint removal the best public health policy?

Elizabeth

 

I have rehab. Over (5) homes that had lead based paint on them, The homes

 

were tested and found that if  the old paint is cleaned and prepped

 

the right way the homes were safe for children including my own.

 

I find if I feed my children they do not eat the paint off the walls and shills,

 

there fore they are safe from lead poisoning.

 

 

                                        Mike Circle