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zebidiah@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoHow old was your mom when they stopped putting lead into gasoline and paint?
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zebidiah@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoHow old was your mom when they stopped putting lead into gasoline and paint?
darthelmet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Huh. This turned out to be a more complicated answer than I thought. My parents were born in the mid 60s. Lead paint was banned in 1978, so they would have been in their teens. Lead gasoline, on the other hand, was gradually phased out starting in 1973, so a little earlier, but shockingly wasn’t completely banned until literally the month I was born, Jan 1996.
Lead pipes are even more wild. NEW installations were banned in 1974, but it allowed existing ones to stay in.
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well but normally existing lead pipes aren’t a big problem because they get plated fast