Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home

By: Environmental Protection Agency

Narrated by: Tom Brooks

Lead from paint, dust, and soil in and around your home can be dangerous if not managed properly.

The Environmental Protection Agency wants you to know:

• Children under 6 years old are most at risk for lead poisoning in your home
• Lead exposure can harm young children and babies even before they are born
• Homes, schools, and child care facilities built before 1978 are likely to contain lead-based paint
• Even children who seem healthy may have dangerous levels of lead in their bodies
• Disturbing surfaces with lead-based paint or removing lead-based paint improperly can increase the danger to your family
• People can get lead into their bodies by breathing or swallowing lead dust, or by eating soil or paint chips containing lead

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