Recently, the World Health Organization issued a statement saying that lead paint is the "primary trigger point" for lead poisoning in children. Children's lives may be exposed to lead paint through toys, walls, door frames, and furniture. When a reporter from Modern Express visited some paints and furniture markets, they found that parents were not paying enough attention to "lead content" when buying paints and children's furniture . Some stores were not sure whether the paints they sold contained lead.
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WHO: Children lead poisoning, paint is the "primary"
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Recently, the World Health Organization issued a statement that paint was the "primary trigger point" for lead poisoning in children, and called for avoiding the use of lead paint to protect children from lead poisoning.
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WHO has identified lead as one of the ten chemicals that cause major public health concerns. It is said that lead exposure causes 143,000 deaths each year, and young children are particularly vulnerable to the toxic effects of lead. Lead poisoning can also cause serious and sustained side effects on children ’s health, especially affecting the brain and nervous system development. WHO reminded that children may be exposed to lead paint through toys, walls, door frames and furniture.
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Children in Nanjing, blood lead is normal
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In 2010, the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control conducted a survey of more than 1,000 children aged 7-12 in Nanjing. The results showed that the average blood lead was 36.90 micrograms / liter, and the blood lead poisoning rate was 1.8%. This result is comparable to that of the United States, Beijing, and Germany, and is lower than Tianjin, Wuhan, and the national average. The survey also showed that the blood lead level of boys is higher than that of girls, which is consistent with the results of the third national health and nutrition survey in the United States and the blood lead survey of children in 15 cities in China. As age increases, children's outdoor activities increase, boys have a wide range of activities, and there are many opportunities for exposure to lead pollution. Boys should be given more health education.
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Yao Tianhong, the child care center of Nanjing Maternal and Child Health Hospital said: "In fact, these two years, the clinic has rarely seen children with severe lead poisoning."
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"Children are more likely to absorb lead than adults, and it is difficult to expel it." Yao Tianhong said that the presence of inferior paints and coatings does easily lead children to exceed the lead. Now furniture floors and walls are inseparable from paint coatings. Once lead paints are used , Definitely detrimental to children ’s health.
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Yao Tianhong said that children sometimes have excessive lead, which may be related to the environment, not just paint. For example, our country used leaded gasoline before, and then changed to unleaded gasoline, but according to research, these lead will exist in the air environment for a long time, the longest can reach 20 years. Second, children like to play with toys, but the brighter the color of the toy, the more likely it is to be ingested by children if they use fake lead paint. Third, excessive intake of lead-containing foods can also lead to excessive lead. For example, the roadside method of exploding popcorn has a very high lead content and is not recommended for children. Fourth, some high-pollution, high-emission industrial areas are of course more likely to cause children to exceed lead levels.
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Does the paint contain lead? The owner is confused, the parents do not care
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"This kind of additive-free, the most environmentally friendly." In a decorative city in the east of the city, a salesperson of a brand paint store pointed to a latex paint. This paint is used in children's rooms without worrying about safety problem. When the reporter asked whether the paint contained lead, the salesperson said he did not know.
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The staff of another paint store said, "There must be no lead in the wood paint, you can see here." The owner pointed to a test report. The test results on the third page of the report clearly stated that the content of soluble lead was 1. Item "not detected".
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But for the wall paint, the owner said that he was not clear, "Generally, it is introduced that it does not contain formaldehyde and benzene, and few people will ask about lead."
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In a large furniture market, a young couple is choosing furniture, and his husband Mr. Ma said that they plan to buy a computer desk for their children as a gift. "Lead content? Isn't it generally said that formaldehyde exceeds the standard?" Mr. and Mrs. Ma said that they have not paid attention to this problem. They have heard that the adhesive of furniture will contain formaldehyde. .
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In addition to paints and furniture, furniture, the most common source of "lead" children are exposed to is colorful toys with different shapes.
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Relevant experts from Nanjing Quality Inspection Institute said that the national standards for furniture and coatings have clear provisions for lead content, and the content of migrated lead in paints should not exceed 90 mg / kg.
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Experts explained that in addition to lead, the main heavy metal indicators specified in these standards are chromium, cadmium, and mercury. These heavy metals are the main components of paint color development. "The brighter the paint, the more likely it is to contain a lot of heavy metal components."
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Experts remind that during the purchase of furniture and coatings, regular brand products should be selected as much as possible, and the quality is relatively guaranteed. Try not to choose some brightly colored products, so as to avoid the danger of heavy metals exceeding the standard. (Editor: Peter)
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