Rule on Lead Safety Set to Take Effect
By Linda on May 28, 2010 in Toxins
Dr. Gordon’s comments:
LEAD is again being recognized for the persistent danger it represents.
No one dares discuss the levels of lead we are born with being 1000 times higher than just 400 years ago or the proven fact that is DOES REAL HARM, as the higher it is the more heart attacks there are and the sooner you develop cataracts. All found in studies from Harvard and CDC that everyone has this massive load of lead in bones when we are born and it just gets worse every time we breath, as particulates in the air from coal burning as far away as China are giving us Lead and Mercury.
Somehow, this does not make anyone excited, as statins are so much easier to focus on and what your cholesterol level is fits our 5-7 minute office visit demands. Yet statements like this are regularly appearing in newspapers like the New York Times that reminds some of us that Ritalin deficiency is not the correct diagnosis. Of course this extends to Autism, Dementia and all causes of morbidity and mortality and bones take adults 15 years to remodel and no chelator gets it out faster, as only soft tissue stores are readily chelatable.
So bone lead must come out slowly by pushing out more lead each day than we take in by living, breathing, drinking, and eating by using oral chelators and fiber and high dose ascorbic acid and properly designed Zeolite products daily for life.
Of course anyone who is pregnant today is pushing the lead from their body into the fetus. So no where on planet earth is anyone born without their 1000 times elevation of bone lead, which at menopause slowly is released, as bone loss occurs leading to Hypertension, Fatigue, Dementia, etc. So this EPA regulation is too little too late but better than nothing, as some may learn that getting the lead out is a worthwhile activity.
Here it is in the NY TIMES and similar information is seen all the time but it all misses the mark by a mile!!
Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/health/09lead.html?scp=1&sq=lead%20and%20EPA&st=cse
Excrept:
After almost two decades of delays, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it was on track to implement a regulation requiring the construction industry to help prevent cases of lead poisoning among children.
The agency said it expected more than 125,000 renovation and remodeling contractors to be trained and certified in lead-safe work practices by April 22, when the new regulation takes effect.Under the rule, workers would have to take steps like containing their work area with plastic and conducting a thorough cleanup of lead paint dust stirred up during construction activity, which federal officials say is partly to blame for about 120,000 cases of elevated lead levels in children younger than 6 each year. Congress passed legislation in 1992 directing the E.P.A. to propose the regulation, but the agency did not finish the rule until 2008, after environmental and public interest groups filed a lawsuit to pressure the agency to issue it. Some environmental groups are now pushing to make the rule tougher, while builders are warning their clients that it will inevitably increase construction costs. The rule applies to work performed in homes and buildings occupied by children, including schools and day care centers built before lead paint was banned in 1978. E.P.A. officials said on Thursday that with a housing stock of about 38 million units that are potentially affected by the rule, they expect it to produce results.
