LEAD IN PAINTS STUDY REVEALS CONTAMINATION IN ASIA
July 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN researchers say paint manufacturers continue to produce and sell consumer paints with dangerously high levels of lead in countries with weak environmental health controls. A University of Cincinnati study found 75% of all tested paint in India, China and Malaysia contained high levels of lead, with more than 50% of samples 30 times higher than the permitted US standard.
Cincinnati's Dr Scott Clark said: "In some cases, companies are offering the same or similar products, minus the lead, in a regulated country." However, in ...
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