LEAD Action News Vol
1 no 2 Winter 1993 ISSN 1324-6011 Incorporating Lead Aware Times ( ISSN 1440-4966) and Lead Advisory Service News ( ISSN 1440-0561) The journal of The LEAD (Lead Education and Abatement Design) Group Inc. |
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National Health and Medical Research Council Deliberations The NHMRC has recently decided that a blood lead "level of concern" is no longer appropriate and has replaced it with a national public health target of 10 micrograms per decilitre (10 µg/dL) , although no date for achievement of the target has been set The Council suggested actions for various blood lead levels above the target, as follows: 1. Management responses for the community When more than 5% of 1-4 year old children in a community have a blood lead level above 15 µg/dL then the following actions should occur:-
When more than 5 % of 1-4 year olds are above 25 µg/dL, the NHMRC recommends:
2. Management responses for individual children blood lead of 15-24 µg/dL
blood lead of 25-54 µg/dL
blood lead > 55 µg/dL As above for levels of 25-54 plus urgent clinical assessment regarding immediate medical management (June 1993 |
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