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8204720

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-7-14
pubmed:abstractText
This paper outlines a risk assessment of a lead-contaminated residential site in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, near the Pasminco Metals-Sulphide lead and zinc smelter. The assessment includes a hazard identification and a dose-response assessment based on recent research findings; an exposure assessment based on two interrelated indicators, soil/dust lead and blood lead; a risk characterisation; and finally, a discussion of environmental and behavioural options for the management of risk. The exposure assessment showed lead concentrations of 20 to 21,460 parts per million in soil survey samples, 23 to 35,870 parts per million in household dust, and a range of mean values for blood lead concentration of 11 micrograms/dl to 17 micrograms/dl, in four study groups. The proportions of children within these groups having blood lead concentrations of 10 micrograms/dl or greater, the current level of known health effect, ranged from 57 per cent to 85 per cent. The decision by the National Health and Medical Research Council in June 1993 to set a goal for blood lead of below 10 micrograms/dl has important implications for the definition and the management of the environmental health risk from 'living with lead' in the area assessed.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1035-7319
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
373-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Living near a lead smelter: an environmental health risk assessment in Boolaroo and Argenton, New South Wales.
pubmed:affiliation
Public Health Unit, Hunter Area Health Service, Newcastle, NSW.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't