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Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 9-12

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... 2. Since the first metabolic effects in children become evident when the blood lead concentration exceeds 30 yg/dl, and since the most desirable means of controlling disease is prevention, we recommend that the total daily lead exposure, including exposure from food, ambient air and paint, for a one- to five-year-old child not exceed levels sufficient to raise the blood lead concentration above 30 yg Pb/dl.
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... 4. Since 0.5 percent lead in paint represents a hazard to a child with pica for paint, and since most currently available household paints contain <0.06 percent lead in paint, thus demonstrating that lead is not an essential ingredient for all paints, and since a reasonable allowance must be made for variations due to contamination of raw materials and detection limits and precision of analytical methods for analyzing the lead content of paints, we recommend that the deliberate addition of lead to paint for residential buildings or other surfaces accessible to young children be immediately discontinued and that a level not to exceed 0.06 percent lead in the final dried product be set for regulatory purposes.
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... its use. We recommend that these various agencies coordinate their research efforts in relation to the dangers of lead and that they coordinate their policies regarding the limits for human exposure from industrial sources, consumer products, air, food and water so that an individual's total exposure from various sources falls within a range which allows a margin of safety for those individuals in the population who are affected by relatively low doses.
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