Eliminating Childhood Lead Poisoning

Binder S, Falk H, eds. Strategic plan for the elimination of childhood lead poisoning Report to the Risk Management Subcommittee, Committee to Coordinate Environmental Health and Related Programs. Atlanta GA Centers for Disease Control, 1991. 

Centers for Disease Control (CDC), U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Strategic Plan for the Elimination of Childhood Lead Poisoning (1991) 1. 

In the United States, the early decades of the twentieth century produced the first clinical inklings of what would prove to be the enormous childhood lead poisoning problem arising from lead in paint. This period witnessed an international effort to control or eliminate use of lead paint, an effort notable by the United States absence. There were also continuing efforts to control and characterize lead exposures in the workplace. 

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