Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po...
by thinkcontext on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:22AM
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"To protect the health of painters, France had passed in 1909 a law banning the use of paints containing lead for the painting of the interior and exterior of all buildings."
"The League of Nations banned white-lead interior paint in 1922 (you know an environmental regulation is old if it was issued by the League of Nations), but the U.S. declined to implement the ban."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paint
"The League of Nations banned white-lead interior paint in 1922 (you know an environmental regulation is old if it was issued by the League of Nations), but the U.S. declined to implement the ban."
https://environmentlawhistory.blogspot.com/2016/01/lead-regu...
I made no claims about the UK.