Lead Poisoning Prevention
Fact Sheets and Brochures

• General Fact Sheets
• Remodeling the Older Home Series
• Lead in Water
• Other MDH Resources
• Non-MDH Fact Sheets
• More Translated Fact Sheets

General 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: 367KB/2 pages)
• Hmong (PDF: 81KB/2 pages)
• Spanish (PDF: 82KB/2 pages)
• Black and White Printer Versions:
  • English (PDF: 80KB/2 pages)
  • Hmong (PDF: 81KB/2 pages)
  • Spanish (PDF: 82KB/2 pages)

Cleaning Up Sources of Lead in the Home

• English (PDF: 1.09MB/2 pages)
• Hmong (PDF: 394KB/2 pages)
• Somali PDF: 361KB/2 pages)
• Spanish (PDF: 392KB/2 pages)

Common Sources of Lead

• English (PDF: 30KB/2 pages)
• Somali (PDF: 104KB/2 pages)
• Spanish (PDF: 40KB/2 pages)

Is Lead A Problem In Your Home?

• English (PDF: 558KB/2 pages)

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Lead Exposure During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding (HTML)

The PDFs below are tri-folds:

• English (PDF: 37KB/2 pages)
• Hmong (PDF: 37KB/2 pages)
• Spanish (PDF: 38KB/2 pages)
• Black and White Printer Versions:
  • English (PDF: 35KB/2 pages)
  • Hmong (PDF: 37KB/2 pages)
  • Spanish (PDF: 38KB/2 pages)

Remodeling the Older Home Series

• Testing the Home for Lead (PDF: 58KB/2 pages)
• Removing Carpet (PDF: 59KB/2 pages)
• Removing Paint From Exterior Surfaces (PDF: 62KB/2 pages)
• Removing and Covering Interior Paint (PDF: 66KB/2 pages)
• Replacing Doors, Windows and Trim (PDF: 98KB/2 pages)
• Working With Soil (PDF: 59KB/2 pages)
• Clean-Up and Disposal of Lead-Contaminated Waste (PDF: 60KB/2 pages)

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Steps to Help Lower Your Child's Blood Lead Level

• English (PDF: 473KB/2 pages)
• Hmong (PDF: 625KB/2 pages)
• Somali (PDF: 299KB/2 pages)
• Spanish (PDF: 632KB/2 pages)

Take-Home Lead: A Preventable Risk for Your Family

• English (PDF: 74KB/2 pages)

Toys and Lead

• English (PDF: 39KB/1 page)

What is Lead Poisoning?

• English (PDF: 23KB/2 pages)
• Somali (PDF: 24KB/2 pages)
• Spanish (PDF: 169KB/2 pages)

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Lead in Water
(Drinking Water Protection Section 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

• English (PDF 386KB:2 pages)

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Other MDH Resources

• DVD - "Lead Safe Housing Equals Lead Free Kids"

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. (View)

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)

• Toxic Treats Posters

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 - full story. MDH has a limited supply of the posters that can be ordered by calling the Lead Program's Special Projects Coordinator.

• English (PDF 1054KB:1 page) Attention: Non-MDH link
• Spanish (PDF 1127KB:1 page) Attention: Non-MDH link


• 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.

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Non-MDH Fact Sheets

Sustainable Resources Center

• Lead Hurts Kids
  • English (PDF: 376KB/2 pages)
  • Spanish (PDF: 308KB/2 pages)

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National Center for Healthy Housing

• Miscellaneous Lead Resources
• New Items of Interest Regarding Toys & Testing:
  • Testing for Lead in Consumer Items for Children (PDF: 129KB/3 pages)
  • Toys and Childhood Lead Exposure (PDF: 80KB/2 pages)

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University of Minnesota Extension Service

• 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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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• Documents and Brochures
• Translations of the document, "Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home"

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More Translated Fact Sheets

The links listed below are non-MDH websites that have resources translated into other languages that you may find useful.

• Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health (Burmese, Spanish)
• HUD Healthy Homes (Spanish)
• New York State (Bosnian, Chinese, Farsi, French, Greek, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Urdu, and Vietnamese)
• State of Oregon (Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese)

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For questions about this page, please contact the Lead Program at health.lead@state.mn.us or 651-201-4620. For specific lead questions, please use the contacts listed on our Contact Us page.