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Lead

  • Lead Poisoning and Your Children Pamphlet Now Available in 14 Languages

    EPA’s Lead Poisoning and Your Children pamphlet is now available in Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dari, English, French, Haitian Creole, Korean, Pashto, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese.

    Learn more and download the pamphlets.

  • EPA Strengthens Dust-Lead Standards to Protect Children from Lead Exposure.

    EPA has finalized a rule that creates stronger requirements for identifying and cleaning up lead-based paint hazards in pre-1978 homes and childcare facilities.

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