Ok, that's reasonable, and I don't have any good answers. I just get rid of things and call it good, but the food is a big question, and it's not fair to the k

Ok, that's reasonable, and I don't have any good answers. I just get rid of things and call it good, but the food is a big question, and it's not fair to the kids to completely forbid playgrounds. Lead dust in houses is a well studied hazard. The folks at the county department tell me the things they address first are lead paint (interior and exterior house paint and soil around the house), lead in the tap water, and vinyl mini-blinds. Abating those sources almost always drops BLL in the kids. If that isn't enough, they go after toys and dishes. If I remember right, testing of food is not yet in their protocol. For me the decision to get rid of the dishes was trivially simple. I'd be glad to find out that the food we ate off those dishes miraculously failed to pick up any of the lead that so easily rubbed off on my swabs. I don't think that's likely. Same with the kids toys and art supplies. Sure, I can tell little kids not to lick their arylics, but why wouldn't I also make sure the yellows are cadmium-free, just in case they forget and eat a sandwich with paint on their fingers?