The Glasgow Lead Studies: When Lead in Drinking Water Entered the Bloodstream of Mothers and Infants
Scotland faced the problem first and developed the responses first. Fifty years later, London sits at the centre of one of Britain’s largest remaining lead pipe replacement challenges. Introduction Half a century ago the British debate on lead in drinking…
England knows how many children it detects with elevated blood lead. The UK does not know how many children have it. This review examines what LEICSS surveillance can and cannot establish, why the 2021 change to the intervention concentration complicates…
Joining copper or brass to lead creates a galvanic cell that concentrates corrosion at the junction, and an insert made with brass couplings creates two of them. Why partial repairs to lead pipework can raise lead at the tap, what…
A laboratory can measure lead in a water sample with high precision, but it cannot determine what that concentration represents. This review examines the sampling variables that govern what a lead result is evidence of, and argues that an analytical…
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