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There's more. Here's a good resource on common household lead hazards: https://tamararubin.com/topics/ https://tamararubin.com/topics/. She tags her posts bl
by nate_meurer 5y ago
There's more. Here's a good resource on common household lead hazards: https://tamararubin.com/topics/ https://tamararubin.com/topics/. She tags her posts blog-style so it's easy to browse.
Here are the things that I found in my house:
- Dishes and cookware, especially vintage and fancy glazed shit. It's a fucking crime how many popular brands use heavily leaded glazes in their products. The vintage Lenox stoneware I got from my parents tested at 4000 ppm at the eating surface, where the glaze was chalking off into our food.
- Small metal toy charms and cheap kids' jewelry. Commonly made from pewter, and often swallowed by small kids and babies.
- Vinyl miniblinds. Up until the late 90's vinyl blinds were heavily leaded. The dust they shed as they degrade in the UV light from the window is a common route of childhood lead poisoning.
- Dirt around old houses. If a house with leaded paint was ever sanded or scraped, the soil around around it can contain shockingly high amounts of lead, which is easily tracked into the house.
These are just the ones that I encountered when my kids were little. Tamara's website has a bunch more. The good news is that the consumer landscape has vastly improved in the last decade, so most of these are easily avoidable once you're aware of them.