Lead levels in new enamel household paints from Asia, Africa and South America

Environmental Research

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 930-936

  Clark, C Scott ^a   Rampal, Krishna G ^b   Thuppil, Venkatesh ^c   Roda, Sandy M ^a   Succop, Paul ^a   Menrath, William ^a   Chen, Chin K ^d   Adebamowo, Eugenious O ^e   Agbede, Oluwole A ^e   Sridhar, Mynepalli K C ^e   Adebamowo, Clement A ^e   Zakaria, Yehia ^f   El Safty, Amal ^f   Shinde, Rana M ^g   Yu, Jiefei ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Malaysia)

^c ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^d SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^f CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SEYCHELLES   (Seychelles)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Asia; Lead based paint; New paint; South America

Indexed keywords

LEAD; PAINT;

COMMODITY; EXPORT; HEALTH RISK; LEAD; LEGISLATION; POISONING;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHINA; COLOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDIA; LEAD POISONING; MALAYSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGAPORE; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AFRICA; ASIA; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; PAINT; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69849108765     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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