Reducing Lead Exposures

Reducing your child's exposure to lead and lead-based products is one of the most important things you can do to prevent health problems associated with elevated blood lead levels. Below are some first steps you can take to reduce your child's lead exposures. However, the information below does not address all the possible sources of lead exposure.

6 Tips for Reducing Lead Exposures

• Childhood Lead Exposures: 6 Actions to Reduce Your Family's Risks (English)
• Exposição de Crianças ao Chumbo:  6 Ações Para Reduzir os Riscos na Sua Família (Portuguese)
• Exposición de los Niños al Plomo: 6 Acciones Para Reducir los Riesgos de Su Familia (Spanish)

Safer Gardening: Reducing Lead Exposures from Soil (English)

For more resources, in many languages, on childhood lead exposures go to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (CLPPP) website at https://www.mass.gov/lists/lead-brochures-and-fact-sheets.