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Third, the scientific and societal maturation of lead as a public health issue has increasingly compelled both the scientist and the physician to view the element in ways qualitatively and quantitatively different from what has traditionally been the case. Lead has long been known to produce severe adverse effects in identifiable poisoned subjects, and those impacts required clinician and physician involvement within the framework of a one-on-one medical intervention model. However, we are increasingly made aware that lead also produces a variety of subtle but important adverse effects on the developing central nervous system and other systems in humans. These are not only irreversible in some cases but can exact significant economic and public health tolls when those effects are metered or scaled on a macro or population basis. 

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