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Editorial
Fancy having less than 40
µg of lead as your total body
burden? (See figure). Sorry, you were born in the wrong century!
But if The LEAD Group achieves its aims then every child born next
century will be far less contaminated with lead than the middle
figure below. As will the ducks and dogs, flora and microbes, in
short, all living things. Please subscribe or re-subscribe to LEAD
Action News as your contribution to a lead risk-reduced
ecologically sustainable future.
We also welcome your input and views, comments and
corrections on articles. After some enquiries from callers and
some verbally reported success with the homoeopathic remedy for
lead poisoning, the taking of lead, I'd be very interested in more
information. If you know of any cases, please send a written
record including blood lead levels before and after homoeopathic
treatment. The theme for our next issue is Lead and Women, Women
and the Environment.
Body burden of
lead in ancient people uncontaminated by industrial lead (left);
typical American (middle); people with overt clinical lead
poisoning (right). Each dot represents 40 µg of lead. [Reference:
"Measuring Lead Exposure in Infants, Children and Other
Sensitive Populations". Publ. National Academy of Sciences,
Feb 1993. Source: Patterson et al., adapted from NRC, 1980.]
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