Lead Exposure in Young Children from Dust and Soil in the United Kingdom

Overview

Journal Environ Health Perspect

Date 1990 Nov 1

PMID 2088756

Citations 30

Authors

I Thornton

D J Davies

J M Watt

M J Quinn

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Abstract

A survey of metals in United Kingdom dusts and soils has confirmed widespread lead contamination with a geometric mean value for lead in surface (0-5 cm) garden soils of 266 micrograms/g and in housedusts of 561 micrograms/g (excluding old mining areas). A subsequent detailed survey of 97 householders in Birmingham with 2-year-old children showed dust lead loading in the home environment to be an important predictor of blood lead concentrations in young children, when both variables fell within the normal range for the U.K. The total estimated lead uptake by the young child was 36 micrograms/day of which 1 microgram was by inhalation and 35 micrograms by ingestion.

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