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 |