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It’s as recent as anything built before 1986 when it comes to lead pipes: https://www.epa.gov/lead/protect-your-family-exposures-lead https://www.epa.gov/lead/p
by ra1n85 8y ago
It’s as recent as anything built before 1986 when it comes to lead pipes: https://www.epa.gov/lead/protect-your-family-exposures-lead https://www.epa.gov/lead/protect-your-family-exposures-lead
- Theodores 8y agoIn the UK we had lead in petrol until the year 2000 and most motorsports was sponsored by big tobacco in those days. So worrying about a little bit of lead in paint left over from 1986 kind of shows how far we have come. We did actually have lead free petrol before then in the UK and the government even made it significantly cheaper. But nobody wanted it, they chose to pay extra to put toxic lead in their cars. Damaging their engine bothered people more than damaging their kids brains (or even their own brains). Luckily the UK was part of Europe and EU legislation resulted in leaded fuel being removed from forecourts.
- dan-robertson 8y agoI also find it amusing that we still call that petrol “unleaded,” as if to imply that the natural state of petrol is leaded and some company has kindly removed the lead from it to make it safer, rather than never adding it.
- nitrogen 8y agoI don't know, "unleaded" sounds kind of like "unleavened", where leavening was never added in the first place. I think "deleaded" might be closer to "lead removed", if it were a word.
- coryrc 8y agoPrivate plane owners in the USA still burn leaded fuel! It's the source of 50% of children's lead exposure.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoGonna need to see a source on that 50%
- coryrc 8y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230438/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230438/