Trail shares global spotlight in effort to reduce lead exposure

Trail shares global spotlight in effort to reduce lead exposure

THEP was established in the early 1990s in response to concerns about lead exposure

Mining practices take airbourne lead to hazardous levels in Nigeria

Unregulated, informal mining in Nigeria is exposing whole communities to dangerous levels of airbourne lead that have been found to be up to 10 times higher than the US Permissible Exposure Limit. Published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, the study is the first to specifically measure airborne lead exposure from self-employed artisanal lead miners as a source of community contamination. Lead ore is bagged and sold for e…