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Lead in playground dust and on the hands of schoolchildren.
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When hand-lead and dust-lead values were averaged for each school and a statistically significant relationship between the two sets of means was obtained, it was indicated that most of the particles were less than 10 micron in diameter.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 1985-07-01. It has received 163 citations till now.read more
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Risk-based evaluation of the exposure of children to trace elements in playgrounds in Madrid (Spain).
TL;DR: Risks associated with the estimates of toxicity values and exposure factors should be reduced before any definite conclusions regarding potential health effects are drawn, risk assessment has proven to be a very useful tool to identify the contaminants and exposure pathways of most concern in urban environments.
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Trace elements in street and house dusts: sources and speciation.
Jack E. Fergusson,N. D. Kim +1 more
TL;DR: The sources and speciation of trace elements in street and house dusts are reviewed and the mobility and potential availability of the trace elements from dust lies in the order Cd greater than Zn, Pb greater than Mn, Cu greater Fe.
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Chemical Immobilization of Lead, Zinc, and Cadmium in Smelter-Contaminated Soils Using Biosolids and Rock Phosphate
TL;DR: Alkaline organic treatments can reduce human exposure to Cd and Pb by reducing Zn phytotoxicity and revegetation of contaminated sites and alkaline organic Treatments (LSB, NV) decreases Cd transmission through the food chain pathway, whereas rock phosphate decreases risk from exposure to Pb via the soil ingestion pathway.
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Aggregate exposures of nine preschool children to persistent organic pollutants at day care and at home
TL;DR: It is found that the indoor exposures were greater than those outdoors, that exposures at day care and at home were of similar magnitudes, and that diet contributed greatly to the exposures.
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Dust: a metric for use in residential and building exposure assessment and source characterization.
TL;DR: This review examines house dust and residential soil and their use for identifying sources and the quantifying levels of toxicants for the estimation of exposure and the status and needs for wipe samplers, surface sampler, and vacuum sampler, and the current status of standardization.
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House and Hand Dust As a Potential Source of Childhood Lead Exposure
TL;DR: Dust containing lead was found on the hands of inner-city children and interior household surfaces in substantially larger amounts than in similar suburban settings, suggesting that children may ingest this lead through typically frequent mouthing activity.
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Exposure to lead by the oral and the pulmonary routes of children living in the vicinity of a primary lead smelter
Harry Roels,Jean-Pierre Buchet,Robert Lauwerys,P. Bruaux,Francoise Claeys-Thoreau,Lafontaine A,Geert Verduyn +6 more
TL;DR: The control of airborne lead around the lead smelter is not sufficient to prevent excessive exposure of children to environmental lead, and remedial actions should be directed simultaneously against the atmospheric emission of lead by the Smelter and against the lead particulates deposited on soil, dust, and dirt.
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Increased Lead Absorption in Inner City Children: Where Does the Lead Come From?
TL;DR: The hypothesis that lead-contaminated household dust is a major source of lead for inner city children and hand contamination and repetitive mouthing is the proposed mechanism of ingestion is explored.
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Childhood exposure to lead in surface dust and soil: a community health problem.
M J Duggan,M J Inskip +1 more
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Lead analysis of house dust: a method for the detection of another source of lead exposure in inner city children.
TL;DR: It is suggested that lead-containing dust may be one of the most important environmental sources of increased lead exposure in this specific population group.