Title
Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh City Code of Ordinances in multiple locations with provisions related to
lead safety and mitigation in order to reduce, and thereby mitigate the health risks of, exposure of City residents, and particularly young children, to
lead (Pb) hazards.
Body
WHEREAS
lead, the metal (Pb), is a neurotoxin that adversely affects many body systems, including the nervous, circulatory, endocrine, immune, renal, skeletal and muscular systems;
Monograph on Health Effects of Low-Level
Lead, National Toxicology Program, Research Triangle Park,NC: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; 2012: xvi, xxii, xxi, 62, 72. 77, 114.
Low Level
Lead Exposure Harms Children: A Renewed Call for Primary Prevention, Advisory Committee on Childhood
Lead Poisoning Prevention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (January 4, 2012).
Prevention of Childhood
Lead Toxicity, American Academy of Pediatrics, Council on Environmental Health, Pediatrics (July 2016), 2016;138(1):e20161493.
Blood
lead level and kidney function in US adolescents: the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Fadrowski JJ, Navas-Acien A, Tellez-Plaza M, Guallar E, Weaver VM, Furth SL, Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(1):75-82.
Cleveland City Council,
Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition, at 1 (May 2019).
SEE ATTACHMENT
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WHEREAS the adverse effects of
lead exposure and poisoning are cumulative and largely permanent;
Joint State Government Commission of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Lead Exposure Risks and Responses in Pennsylvania: Report of the Advisory Committee and Task Force on
Lead Exposure, at 1 (April 2019).
Low Level
Lead Exposure Harms Children: A Renewed Call for Primary Prevention, Advisory Committee on Childhood
Lead Poisoning Prevention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (January 4, 2012),
Katrina S. Korfmacher and Michael L. Hanley, Are Local Laws the Key to Ending...
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