Lead Poisoning Prevention
Fact Sheets and Brochures
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MDH Fact Sheets
Childhood Lead Poisoning Information: Help to Make Lead Poisoning a Thing of the Past (HTML)
The PDFs below are tri-folds:
English (PDF: 190KB/2 pages) | Hmong (PDF: 81KB/2 pages) | Karen (PDF: 3.4MB/2 pages) | Spanish (PDF: 82KB/2 pages)
Cleaning Up Sources of Lead in the Home (HTML)
English (PDF: 961KB/2 pages) | Hmong (PDF: 394KB/2 pages) | Somali (PDF: 361KB/2 pages) | Spanish (PDF: 392KB/2 pages)
English (PDF: 30KB/2 pages) | Somali (PDF: 104KB/2 pages) | Spanish (PDF: 31KB/2 pages)
Is Lead A Problem In Your Home? (HTML)
Lead Exposure During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding (HTML)
The PDFs below are tri-folds:
English (PDF: 79KB/2 pages) | Hmong (PDF: 37KB/2 pages) | Spanish (PDF: 38KB/2 pages)
Steps To Help Lower Your Child's Blood Lead Level (HTML)
English (PDF: 171KB/2 pages) | Hmong (PDF: 261KB/2 pages) | Somali (PDF: 293KB/2 pages) | Spanish (PDF: 257KB/2 pages)
Take-Home Lead: A Preventable Risk for Your Family (HTML)
What is Lead Poisoning? (HTML)
English (PDF: 23KB/2 pages) | Somali (PDF: 24KB/2 pages) | Spanish (PDF: 169KB/2 pages)
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Remodeling the Older Home
- Lead Paint Testing (PDF: 58KB/2 pages)
- Carpet Removal (PDF: 59KB/2 pages)
- Exterior Lead Paint Removal (PDF: 62KB/2 pages)
- Interior Lead Paint Removal (PDF: 66KB/2 pages)
- Replacing Doors, Windows and Trim (PDF: 98KB/2 pages)
- Lead Contaminated Soil (PDF: 59KB/2 pages)
- Lead Waste Clean-up and Disposal (PDF: 60KB/2 pages)
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Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP)
- RRP Compliance Summary (PDF: 104KB/2 pages)
- Lead Poisoning Postcard (PDF: 3720KB/2 pages)
- Lead Enforcement Postcard (PDF: 3650KB/2 pages)
- Contractor Brochure (PDF:1090KB/2 pages)
- Homeowner Brochure (PDF: 2910KB/2 pages)
- Contractor RRP Poster (PDF: 1070KB/1 page)
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Lead in Water
(Drinking Water Protection Brochures & Fact
Sheets)
- Let
it run ... and get the lead out!
English (PDF 421KB/2 pages) | Hmong (PDF 420KB/2 pages) | Spanish (PDF 422KB/2 pages)
- Point-of-Use
Water Treatment Units for Lead Reduction
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Other Resources
Brochures
Steps to Lead Safe Remodeling, Repair and Painting (PDF: 879KB/36 pages) is a step by step guide produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for homeowners who wish to do their own remodeling work and keep themselves and their family safe from the harmful effects of lead.
DVD
- Lead Safe Housing Equals Lead Free Kids DVD - MDH partnered with the Emergency & Community Health Outreach
(ECHO) program to create this DVD that includes seven 20-minute lead
prevention video productions in English, Hmong, Khmer (Cambodian),
Lao, Vietnamese, Somali and Spanish.
To order a DVD that includes all seven languages, call the Lead Program's Special Projects Coordinator or send in a completed DVD order form. (PDF: 21KB/1 page)
Posters
- Toxic Treats Poster - The Toxic Treats posters below were produced by the Orange County Register in California in response to a story they ran on lead contaminated candy being imported from Mexico. MDH has a limited supply of the posters that can be ordered by calling the Lead Program's Special Projects Coordinator.
- 2005 Lead Poster (PDF: 1.04 MB/1 page) The original size of this poster was 11 x 17. It was displayed on the back of women's bathroom stalls at the Minnesota State Fair in 2005.
- Lead/Folic Acid Poster (PDF: 107KB/1 page) The original size of this poster was 11 x 17. It was displayed on the back of women's bathroom stalls at the Minnesota State Fair in 2004.
Websites
University of Minnesota Extension Services- Lead - Your Safe Home
- Lead in the Home Garden and Urban Soil Environment
- Survey of Heavy Metals in Minnesota Holstein Dairy Cattle: Soil, Feed and Liver Concentrations (PDF: 94KB/2 pages)
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Translated Fact Sheets
The links listed below are websites that have resources translated into other languages that you may find useful.
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (Spanish)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Arabic)
- EPA "Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home" (Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, Somali)
- New York State Department of Health (Bosnian, Chinese, Farsi, French, Greek, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Urdu, and Vietnamese)
- Oregon Department of Human Services (Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese)
- Sustainable Resources Center - Lead Hurts Kids-English (PDF: 376KB/2 pages)
- Sustainable Resources Center - Lead Hurts Kids-Spanish (PDF: 308KB/2 pages)
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