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1. Don't Take Lead Home From Your Job!
No lleve el plomo a su casa!
Easy to read factsheet about how workers can avoid taking lead dust home from their jobs and poisoning household members.
2. Eliminate Childhood Lead Poisoning by 2010
Fact sheet created for nutritionists and dietitians about the dangers of lead poisoning, with guidance on their role in preventing and treating it.
3. Hiring a Lead Professional to Work in Your Home
How to hire a professional to ensure the safety of your family when repainting or remodeling a home painted with lead-based paint.
4. How to use Half-Mask Respirators to Prevent Lead Poisoning
Discusses issues regarding proper use of half-mask respirators to prevent lead poisoning. Includes respirator selection, fit testing, seal check, limitations.
5. Lead Hazard Reduction Activities: Notification Requirements
Answers to frequently asked questions regarding DHS notification requirements for lead hazard reduction activities.
6. Lead Paint in California Migrant Housing Camps: Results of Childhood Lead Screening
In early 1988, the discovery of the past use of lead-based paint on state-owned migrant housing prompted a program to eliminate potential exposures to the paint and to test children occupying these houses. This report presents results of the childhood blood lead testing.
7. OLPPP/HESIS Medical Guidelines: The Lead-Exposed Worker
8. State Health Department Issues Health Warning on Lead-Contaminated Chapulines (Grasshoppers)
El Departamento Estatal de Salud Hace Publica Una Advertencia Sobre Chapulines (Saltamontes) Contaminados con Plomo
This press release warns consumers, particularly pregnant women and children, to avoid eating chapulines (grasshoppers) from Oaxaca, Mexico, because they may contain excessively high levels of lead that could cause serious health problems. The product is often a dull red color and is sold in small,
9. State Health Department Issues Warning on Lead-Contaminated Candy From Mexico
This press release warns consumers to avoid eating tamarind candy lollipops labeled Dulmex brand "Bolirindo" because this product and its wrapper contain excessively high levels of lead. This product consists of a soft, dark brown, tamarind fruit candy lollipop on a white or orange-striped stick.
10. State Health Department Warns Consumers not to Eat Chaca Chaca, Lead-Contaminated Candy from Mexico
Departamento de Services de Salud Advierte a Consumidores de no Comer Cierto Dulce
This press release warns consumers to avoid eating Chaca Chaca, an imported chili-based candy from Mexico, because this product may contain excessively high levels of lead that could cause serious health problems. Chaca Chaca is a brownish-red colored fruit pulp bar that is coated with salt and chi
11. State Health Department Warns Consumers Not to Eat Two Brands of Lead-Contaminated Candy From Mexico
El Departmento de Servicios de Salud Advierte a Consumidores de No Comer Ciertos Dulces Que Son Importados de Mexico
Based on tests conducted by the California Department of Health Services, two candy products imported from Mexico may contain high levels of lead that could cause serious health problems. Consumers, particularly infants, young children and pregnant women, should not eat Dulmex Rollito De Tamarindo,
12. Summary of Cal/OSHA General Industry Lead Standard
Resumen de la Norma del Plomo de Cal/OSHA para la Industria General
Summary of Cal/OSHA General Industry Lead Standard, Title 8 CCR Section 5198. 12 pages.
13. Summary of California's Lead Hazard Reduction Bill Enforcement: Senate Bill 460
14. Well Fed = Less Lead
Buena Alimentacion = Menos Plomo
A one-page informational hand-out, providing healthy snack and meal ideas for children.
15. Where Employers Can Get Help
16. Where Workers Can Get Help
Donde pueden conseguir ayuda los trabajadores
List of resources for workers who are employed in industries where lead is used.

   

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