This section provides information on risk assessment and risk management measures. Methods to monitor lead in paint, blood and drinking-water are discussed.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- WHO - Lead in drinking-water: Health risks, monitoring and corrective actions [2022]
- UNEP/WHO - Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Update on the global status of legal limits on lead in paint, December 2021 [2022]
- UNEP/WHO - Toolkit for Establishing Laws to Control the Use of Lead in Paint: Second edition [2021]
- WHO - Brief guide to analytical methods for measuring lead in paint: Second edition [2020]
- WHO - Brief guide to analytical methods for measuring lead in blood: Second edition [2020]
- WHO - Levels of lead in children's blood: European region [2007]
- WHO - Lead: Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels [2003]
- UNEP/Basel Convention - Technical Guidelines for the environmentally sound management of waste lead-acid batteries [2003]
- WHO - Recycling used lead-acid batteries: health considerations [2017]