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Get the lead hysteria out
By Steven Milloy March 16, 2001, FoxNews.com The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last December that levels of lead in children continue to decline. That’s a scary thought to the...
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The Wrong Scary Toy Story
By Steve Milloy December 08, 2008, FoxNews.com One in three toys was found to have “significant levels of toxic chemicals, including lead, flame retardants and arsenic,” according to a new report from...
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Heavy metal junk science: The decline and fall of peer review
Does peer review at Environmental Health Perspectives amount to little more than spell check? A new study in Environmental Health Perspectives reports that, … environmentally relevant levels of metals...
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Public health ‘achievement’: Accounting fraud in childhood lead poisoning...
It’s too bad prosecutors aren’t interested in public health accounting fraud? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today issue its “Ten Great Public Health Achievements — United States,...
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CPSC votes for even sillier lead standards
The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted yesterday to require that toys be 99.99% lead-free, versus the current standard of 99.97% lead-free. Like the old standard, however, the new standard will...
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Solar industry’s lead emissions
“Solar power is not all sunshine. It has a dark side—particularly in developing countries,” reports a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, engineering professor. From the media release: A study by Chris...
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Prenatal lead exposure increases blood pressure in female offspring?
Epidummyologists may have discovered another non-effect. Here’s the study summary: Objectives: We investigated the relationship of prenatal lead exposure and blood pressure (BP) in 7-15 year old boys...
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Greens go after Disney for illegal child lead exposures
Apparently Disney doesn’t greenwash hard enough. From the Los Angeles Times: Dozens of leaded-glass windows and brass rail chains, door knobs and drinking water fountains at some of Disneyland’s most...
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Land of fruits and nuts cranks up chemical scares
‘Toxic chemicals: Agency hardens stance on products’ says the SF Chronicle but they overlook the fact that the dose makes the poison, mere presence does not. The new proposal includes a much larger...
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WashTimes: China’s poisonous exports
Despite some exaggerated points about toxicity and risk, Brett Decker and William Triplett make some good points in the article about slipshod Chinese exports. Decker and Triplett write in the...
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Heavy metals and hearing loss?
You read that right — heavy metals not heavy metal. A new study in the Archives of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery reports that: A blood lead level greater than or equal to 2 μg/dL (to convert...
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CDC panel recommends new lead level standards
This action has nothing to do with improving public health. WABC-TV (New York) reports, A recommendation by a federal panel could mean hundreds of thousands of more children are diagnosed with lead...
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Report: Small Airplanes A Major Source Of Lead Pollution
Lead only makes the media stupid. KUOW.org reports, The United States banned leaded gasoline in 1995. But thousands of airplanes in Washington state still run on leaded fuel — and send toxic lead into...
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Leaded lipstick: How much is too much?
The FDA says, “our results do not show levels of lead in lipstick that would pose a safety concern.” The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Lead is in many lipsticks. But is that okay? Yesterday, the...
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Could your Valentine’s kiss give you lead poisoning?
“The FDA, for its part, agreed there is no cause for alarm.” Reuters’ Mitch Lipka writes: If you’re going to be on either end of a kiss this Valentine’s Day, you might want to consider smooching...
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400 shades of lipstick found to contain lead, FDA says
“We do not consider the lead levels we found in the lipsticks to be a safety concern,” the FDA said. The Washington Post reports: A recent federal analysis showing that 400 shades of popular lipstick...
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Claim: Unsafe levels of lead still found in California youths
“Lead is all around us.” The Los Angeles Times fails to distinguish between true lead poisoning and mere exposure to lead: One-year-old Nelly Gomez refused to eat. Anything she swallowed, she...
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EPA rejects bid to ban lead in fishing tackle
“Sportsmen and wildlife won a big battle.” Greenwire reports: U.S. EPA today denied an effort by environmentalists to ban the lead in fishing tackle, but the green groups said the action gives them...
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Shanghai Halts Johnson Controls Lead Processing
Sounds like Johnson Controls is being punished for some undisclosed slight of the ChiComs. The Wall Street Journal reports: Authorities heredirectly linked lead pollution that they said had sickened...
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Lead-ammo ban sought to protect wildlife
A group of 100 environmental organizations has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate lead in ammunition as a toxic substance. The groups argue that more than 75 species, including...
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