In the chapter “From personal tragedy to public health crisis” of the book “Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children” by Markowitz and Rosner, the lead poisoning and the actions taken is discussed. In the early 1900’s, health departments throughout the U.S. were not communicating and helping each other to fight the public threat of lead. Therefore it was easy for the Lead Industries Association (LIA) to downplay the impact of lead and for manufactures to avoid regulation. Paint was the primarily cause, and children were the ones who were mostly affected by lead. Although, LIA blamed the parents for the lack of parental education and therefore also for the high amount of lead poisoning, instead of admitting who was
