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NEW LEAD PAINT LAW MEANS MORE SCRUTINY FOR CONTRACTORS RENOVATING OLDER HOMES!
Hope you enjoyed the Easter Holiday!  In our family - perhaps also it yours - it seems like the Food Fest never ends!
Here in Chicago and in nearby Chicago Suburbs, hundreds, if not thousands, of single-family homes, condominiums, townhouses, and apartment buildings were built many years ago.  Those beautiful Chicago Bungalows, Victorians, and American Four-Squares may contain lead-based paint and plaster, quite legal when those homes were built, many more than a century ago.
Across the U.S., the sale, manufacture, and distribution of Lead-Based Paint was banned over 30 years ago, in 1978.  However, the 1970's-era ban did not eliminate the dangers of lead-based paint in older residences. 
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as reported by Emily Udell in the Angie's List Magazine last month, there are 37.8 million homes and other facilities where children are regularly present which pre-date the lead paint ban.  Although painted-over lead-based paint poses a limited danger if not disturbed, renovating these older homes - some dating back to before 1900 - could pulverize old lead paint, send it airborne, and create a hazard for those who breathe in the dust.
Although anyone can be poisoned by ingesting enough lead or lead dust, the danger is especially acute ... more

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