As of 31 December 2021, 84 countries – comprising 43% of all countries – have legally binding controls to limit the production, import and sale of lead paints. In the majority of countries worldwide, using lead paint in homes and schools is not prohibited, creating a significant risk of children’s …
At first the villagers could not understand why their kids refused their food and complained of feeling ill all the time. Then, early this summer, so many of the youngsters began to sicken after playing in fields of corn around a giant lead smelter, that the puzzlement turned to foreboding. …
The central pollution control board has praised a city initiative to promote the use of lead-free paint on idols though most pujas are yet to opt for non-toxic colours.
Fetal lead exposure is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes and developmental and cognitive deficits; however, the mechanism(s) by which lead-induced toxicity occurs remains unknown. Epigenetic fetal programming via DNA methylation may provide a pathway by which environmental lead exposure can influence disease susceptibility.
Modern houses are suffused with harmful chemicals. One of them is lead, present in paints. It is banned in several countries but not in India. The Centre for Science and Environment tested popular paints in India for lead content. It found 72 per cent of the samples had lead much …
Thousands of workers are demanding Peru's government save their jobs at a shuttered metals smelter high in the Andes, even if it means delaying a cleanup at the plant that has turned their town into one of the most polluted places on earth. "We don't want the plant to close, …
We found staggeringly high levels of lead in virtually all samples we checked When paint companies were asked about their plans to phase out lead, three responded by doing so in months. It was in early 2008 that my colleagues at the Centre for Science and Environment had tested household …
Chinese provinces have begun shutting lead smelters for environmental checks, after hundreds of children tested for high levels of lead in two separate cases this month. At least three lead smelters in Henan province and two in Shaanxi province, with a combined capacity of about 6 percent of China's annual …
SYED AKBAR Aug. 23: Life would indeed be dull if there were no colours. But scientists argue that certain colours make one dull by acting on the nervous system. Certain colours of enamel paints currently available in India contain high levels of lead which damage the central nervous system, particularly …
Beijing, Aug. 20: More than 1,300 children have been sickened by lead poisoning in central China, the second such case involving a large number of children this month, state media said on Thursday. The official Xinhua News Agency said 1,354 children
New Delhi: It got banned in some developed countries more than a century ago but the Centre for Science and Environment has found unacceptable levels of deadly lead in the enamel paints it tested. Seventy two per cent samples of enamel paints tested by the NGO
Beijing: Hundreds of villagers broke into a smelting plant in north China blamed for the lead poisoning of more than 600 children, smashing trucks in protest, state media reported on Monday. Around 100 policemen were deployed after the villagers in Shaanxi province
Most of the popular brands of paints contain high quantities of lead, a toxin especially dangerous for children, says a latest study done by Centre for Science and Environment. While there is no mandatory standard for lead levels in paints in the country, top companies exceed even the voluntary limit …
This article describes the personal experience and perspective of the authors, who had primary responsibility for drafting the initial health-based regulation limiting lead content of gasoline during the early 1970s while employed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
