Scope of Hazards

Epidemiology & Environmental Surveillance Subcommittee

Delaware Childhood Lead Poisoning Advisory Committee

Updated August 26, 2021

Soil

  • Land near outdoor structures with deteriorated lead-based paint (e.g., playgrounds, houses and other buildings, power line towers, factories, bridges, water towers, fire hydrants)

  • Land near roads and highways

  • Land contaminated by demolition

  • Land contaminated by stained glass restoration

  • Storing contamination building components on soil

  • Automotive tire balance weights

Air

  • Demolition particulates

  • Wind-blown soil from contaminated land

  • Shooting guns using lead ammunition (e.g., at indoor firing ranges)

  • Lead soldering (vapor in craft activities, and stained-glass work)

  • Homemade lead bullets and fishing weights

  • Small aircraft fuel (AV gas) (Includes planes, and small helicopters)

Water

  • Brass faucets

  • Chrome-plated faucets

  • Lead pipes

  • Leaded plumbing solder

Paint

  • Playground equipment

  • Powerline towers

  • Water towers

  • Bridges

  • Fire hydrants

  • Spray paint (used in crafts, model building, furniture, etc.)

  • Art paints (e.g., Williamsburg’s Flake White)

  • Pre-1978 houses and buildings

  • Older toys

  • Older furniture

  • Glassware decoration

  • Ceramics decoration

  • Water bottle decoration

  • Baby bottle decoration

  • Automobile/Industrial vehicle paint

Leisure Activities

  • Lead fishing weights (including homemade fishing weights)

  • Firearms with lead ammunition (including homemade bullets)

  • Contamination from firing ranges

  • Lead shot in game animals

  • Lead contaminated skin, hair, clothing, and shoes from shooting firearms

  • Pottery glazes and clay substrate

  • Stained glass (lead solder)

  • Refinishing furniture

  • Home improvement

  • Brass musical instrument mouth pieces (e.g., for trumpets)

  • Rubber mulch (gardening/playgrounds)

  • Crumb rubber (athletic fields)

Workplace

  • Contamination brought home on skin, hair, clothing, and shoes from work (e.g., home renovation, painting, car repair, plumbing, construction, welding and cutting, electronics, municipal waste incineration, lead compounds manufacturing, rubber products manufacturing, battery manufacturing, plastic manufacturing, lead smelting and refining, working in brass or bronze foundries, demolition, and working with scrap medal.

Hearth & Home

  • Keys

  • Brass door handle pulls (including with nickel finish)

  • Garden water hose (leaded plastic and fittings)

  • Patio umbrella stands

  • Miniblinds

  • Old vinyl records

  • Imported crayons

  • Imported children’s jewelry and toys (including from vending machines)

  • Costume jewelry

  • Imported candles (in the wicks)

  • Vinyl seat coverings

  • Older vinyl printed clothing

  • Kitchen Items (including leaded crystal, pewter, ceramic pottery, older Tupperware, older Pyrex, older Corning Ware, older Corelle, older plastic dishes, imported flatware, decorated drinking glasses from restaurants, imported mugs and cups, water bottles with painted decoration, baby bottles with lead paint decoration, insulated stainless baby bottle with lead soldering, plastic mixer blades, slow cooker with glazed ceramic liners)

  • Imported items for consumption (candy, spices, food in cans with lead containers or lead soldering, vitamins, folk medicines/herbal remedies, water (e.g., San Pellegrino bottle glass)

  • Imported plastic beads (used in U.S. manufacturing)

  • Artificial turf carpeting

  • Imported cosmetics

  • Imported nutritional supplements

  • Leaded ceramic tiles

  • Old pottery used in art objects

  • Stained glass (led solder) (also in churches and other public buildings)

  • Fidget spinners (in brass center wheel)

  • Fireworks


https://www.epa.gov/lead/learn-about-lead

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/sources.htm

https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/lead/

https://tamararubin.com/topics/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lead-in-aviation-fuel/

https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=14754

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead-testing/

https://www.webmd.com/special-reports/lead-dangers/20170906/lead-consumer-products

https://khn.org/news/fidget-spinners-and-lead-expert-advice-on-protecting-your-kids/

https://healthybuilding.net/blog/461-on-tire-wastes-in-playgrounds

https://www.motor1.com/news/76245/see-why-lead-wheel-weights-need-to-go/

https://vhcb.org/our-programs/healthy-lead-safe-homes/lead-poisioning-prevention/lead-in-keys


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