Vulnerability of Children to Lead Exposure and Toxicity

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Abstract
LEAD poisoning in adults is largely an occupational hazard that can be kept under reasonable control, and the source and degree of exposure are generally known. In recent decades, improvements in industrial methods and in occupational health standards, such as institution of periodic examinations of exposed workers for early evidence of undue lead absorption, have reduced severe occupational lead poisoning considerably, particularly in the larger industries. In contrast, childhood plumbism generally occurs as accidental poisoning among young children who cannot be kept under constant surveillance. Although peeling lead-based paint in old houses has been implicated as the major source of . . .