Low level lead exposure: history and discovery.
The history of lead toxicity spans 2 millennnia. With increasingly sensitive methods, deficits due to lead exposure have been demonstrated at lower and lower doses. Persuasive evidence suggests that no threshold for lead toxicity exists.
Needleman
Herbert
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University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. hlnlead@pitt.edu
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