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Review of NSW Lead Issues Paper
REFERENCE
1: "Lead Issues Paper Strategy Framework" in NSW Lead
Issues Paper – March 1993, published by NSW EPA and NSW Health Department,
Sydney, March 1993.
1
To implement a comprehensive program for the reduction of lead from its many sources
focusing on [among others]:
Lead
in petrol – primarily through a phased reduction campaign. Comment – the
first phase in January 1994 in the campaign, reduced allowable lead content of NSW petrol
from 0.8 g/L (rural) and 0.4 g/L (metropolitan) to 0.3 g/L statewide in NSW. The second
phase reduced the level to 0.2 g/L in January 1995.
Lead
in paint – through continued reductions in the lead content of paint voluntarily
undertaken by the paint industry. Comment – one reduction in domestic paint
content took place in Dec 1997, from 0.25% to 0.1%.
Lead
in food – through review of legislation and the enforcement of standards for lead
content of food and container storage [sic]. Comment – ANZFA (Australian New
Zealand Food Authority) reviewed the Australian Food Code standards for heavy metals in
foods in 1999. Very little testing of foods is done so enforcement rarely, if ever, arises
as an issue.
2
To implement a comprehensive program for the continuing reduction of historical lead
contamination by addressing the following issues [among others]:
- Lead in paint
– through public awareness campaigns and technical review programs to allow the
community to take actions to individually address this historical problem. Comment
– you certainly are on your own when it comes to lead paint problems – there is
virtually no protection for either the homebuyer or tenant. "Let the buyer / tenant
beware."
IMPORTANT REQUEST TO READERS – I have
written italicised comments after each component in the following government plans
regarding consumer products – but I would love to hear from you if my comment is
wrong or incomplete and will be happy to print a retraction with the good news about what
has actually happened, in a later issue of LEAD Action News.
Review of NSW Lead
Issues Paper Review
of NHMRC Strategy Review
of Ros Kelly’s Lead Roundtable Review
of NSW Lead Management Action Plan Review
of NSW Parliamentary Select Committee Review
of OECD Declaration
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