Case Studies in Lead Poisoning

by Robin Mosman

Last June The LEAD Group was granted $150,000 by the Commonwealth Environment Protection Agency (CEPA) to set up the LEADLINE Project - a national information and referral service for people's inquiries on lead.

In the second quarterly report of the LEADLINE Project submitted to CEPA in November 1995 we included the following 4 sections of feedback from callers. They are an insight into the real problems people are facing with lead.

Feedback for the first quarterly report was obtained by random call-back of inquirers.

For the second quarter it was decided to target some specific categories of inquirers. Categories selected were:

1. Inquirers who were referred to ceiling dust removalists
2. Home renovators
3. Parents of children with high blood lead levels
4. Tenants.