Abstract
Soil and young children are no strangers. This is especially true when children play outdoors a lot, and even more so when they play in areas with open soil rather than a well-cared-for lawn. If that soil is contaminated with lead, children will carry lead-bearing soil with them on their clothes and on their skin. It will be tracked into their homes on their shoes and on the paws and fur of pets. Their toys will be dirtied with it, and it will get under their fingernails. When they touch their hands to their food or mouths, they will end up ingesting lead.
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Kessel, I., O’Connor, J.T. (1997). Lead in Soil. In: Getting the Lead Out. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6116-7_15
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