Table 2.
Sources of exposure to lead.
Occupational | Environmental |
Smelting or refining lead | Lead paint/pigments |
Battery manufacture | Lead piping |
Plastics manufacture | Leaded petrol |
Housing renovation | Ceramic lead glaze |
Lead crystal | |
Recreational | Other |
Model soldier making | Alternative medicines |
Home jewellery making | (especially Indian) |
Indoor range firearm use | Gunshot wounds |
Ingestion of moonshine whisky | Mobilization of bone in |
Petrol sniffing | hyperthyroidism |
Eye shadow/cosmetics from less developed countries |