Lead

Common Loons to lead poisoning. Knowing the deaths would be detrimental to a severely threatened population, an investigation of dead loons, collected from 1989 to 2010, was carried out by the Loon Preservation Committee, Dr. Mark Pokras of Tufts University, and Tiffany Grade, a graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Necropsies and tissue samples showed lead poisoning was responsible for nearly half of all the dead birds examined. Despite legislation in place to ban lead…

Introduction Lead (Pb) contamination is a pervasive issue in many low-income neighborhoods throughout the United States. The toxicity of lead poses significant risks to human health, and proves to be especially harmful for children in terms of cognitive and physical development. Lead in the environment is primarily related to a legacy of anthropogenic sources including leaded gasoline, leaded paint, and various industrial applications. Although the presence of heavy metals is ubiquitous in the…

Which 1980s New Romantic pop group released a song entitled, "Fade to Grey"? Having started out hosting club nights at Billy's nightclub in Soho, founding members Steve Strange and Rusty Egan wanted to tap into the growing New Wave culture of syntho-pop, forming Visage in the late 1970s. Recruiting amongst others, Midge Ure and Billy Curry - whom also performed with Ultravox - the band's first single was a cover of Zager and Evans "In the Year 2525". This record though proved to be a…

FOR more than two decades Wittenoom in WA’s Pilbara region was a mining stronghold. The small country town which lies around 1400kms northeast of Perth was also, at one stage, the only place in Australia that produced blue asbestos. But when demand for the deadly mineral began to wane and fears of serious health concerns began to emerge, the operation was shut down in 1966. However it was another decade before authorities realised the blue dust that swept throughout the town was extremely…

effects, it was commonly introduced in its solid form from, most commonly, Pb paint. While high concentrations of Pb can lead to coma or death, lower concentrations affect the central nervous system lowering IQ levels with below 25 µg/dL blood level concentrations (CDC, 1991). However, this can lead to lasting effects for the affected children. The CDC also found that “dentine lead levels above 20 ppm were associated with a seven-fold risk of not graduating from high school, a six-fold risk of…

Lead poisoning is an important public policy issue because it affects our environment and even our way of living. Lead appears in our water and in the walls of older apartment buildings. Moreover, lead is a poisonous chemical that negatively affects a person’s health especially for children. In children lead poisoning can deter their mental and physical development. In the extreme case of a child named Joshua (as described in the article “Millions of American children missing early lead tests,…

action with the lead paint and magnets coming lose. The recalled the design flawed toys and changed the design. They also recalled the toys with high levels of lead in the paint. The external vendors in China were cutting cost to save time and money. Mattel addressed their overseas factories, contractors, and suppliers to take measures to ensure compliance with company standards. The Chinese government agreed to prohibit the use of lead paint on toys exported to the U.S. They conducted lead…

infant (Story & Barboza, 2007). The magnets could be swallowed and fuse together, tearing the child’s intestine (Palmeri, 2007). 17.4 million toys were recalled due to faulty magnets (Thottam, 2007). The other reason for the recall was high levels of lead based paint, a result of Mattel’s poor management of their supply…

Then you see it turns into a yucky brown color. You think it’s still okay, but it’s not. The Flint water crisis is a tragedy where the governor of Flint made a mistake by not telling one of the poorest cities in the U.S. , Flint, Michigan about lead in their water. If we are going to help the residents of Flint and make sure this doesn’t happen again, we need to know what is the Flint water water crisis, what is happening to the residence of Flint, and what we can do to stop it. what is the…

In the article “ Americas Real Crime Element: Lead” by Kevin Drum published in Mother Jones magazine, the author gives possible reasons behind crime rates in the 1990’s. Drum introduces many theories, to later discredit them through evidence. Such evidence leads him to the real reason behind violent crimes.The evidence presented by Drum makes his argument credible to most, including parents of young children. Parents with young children have many fears. We fear the future, what type of person…