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BGSU teams with Toledo neighborhood group to rid homes of lead

Residents of a Toledo neighborhood are being recruited to reduce the risk of lead in their homes.

Doing the recruiting is a neighborhood group that has joined with public health advocates in the city and at BGSU in an effort to minimize children’s exposure to the dangerous metal.

Together, they’re hoping that 100 households in the Lagrange community will participate, learning cleaning techniques to lower the amount of dust containing lead in and around their homes.

Most of the homes in the economically stressed neighborhood are older, built before 1978, when the federal government banned lead-based paint from housing. When that paint flakes off, it is easily inhaled or ingested by young children, who can suffer developmental, neurological and other acute problems as a result of high levels of lead in their blood, says Gary Silverman, director of BGSU’s Environmental Health Program.

“It’s a huge issue” in terms of pediatric care costs, adds Hailu Kassa, public and allied health, who is working on the project with Silverman.

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