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Bruce Taubman, MD
Cherry Hill Pediatric Group 600 W Marlton Pike Cherry Hill, NJ 08002

Bruce Taubman, MD; Catherine Wiley, MD; Fredrick Henretig, MD
Department of Pediatrics Children's Hospital of Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pa

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1994;148(7):757-760.

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In 1991 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an update of their pamphlet Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children: A Statement by the Centers for Disease Control.¹ In this updated version, the CDC significantly lowered the recommended blood lead levels that physicians should consider unacceptable. Whereas previous recommendations, published in 1985, considered blood lead levels of 1.2 µmol/L (25 µg/dL) or greater to be indicative of lead poisoning, the new guidelines considered a blood lead level of 0.48 µmol/L (10 µg/dL) or greater to be toxic. The 1991 publication went on to state, "Our goal is that all children should be screened [for lead poisoning] unless it can be shown that the community in which the child lives does not have a childhood lead poisoning problem." As a response to this lower threshold for lead toxicity and the recommendation by the CDC and others that all . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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