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From: ’As safe as houses; the risk of childhood lead exposure from housing in England and implications for public health’

Fig. 1

Window sill with leaded paint picked off and eaten by a case. Children with pica are known to pick at and/or chew surfaces in the home painted with lead paint and this can be a source of lead exposure (photo courtesy of Rebecca Ingham, Advanced Health Protection Practitioner, Yorkshire and Humber Health Protection Team (HPT), UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), 2021)

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