LEAD PETROL

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MORE than 300 environmental experts at a World Health Organisation-supported meeting in Thailand have called for Asian governments to quickly restrict and ban leaded petrol. Researchers from Thailand's Mahidol University released research on lower lead blood contamination in Bangkok children after the introduction of unleaded petrol.



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