Lead poisoning prevention resources for health departments
The resources listed below will help public health professionals and public health departments with details related to blood lead screening, reporting, and education.
General resources
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- Lead testing, treatment, and reporting guidelines for healthcare providers
- Blood lead disease plan
- Utah childhood blood lead screening recommendations
- Blood lead reporting requirements (Utah Administrative Code, Injury Reporting Rule)
- Child lead risk questionnaire
LeadCare II
- Laboratory quick start guide to CMS CLIA certification
- CLIA application for certification
- Meridian Bioscience LeadCare II training
- Requirements for lead testing
- Guidelines for measuring lead in blood using point of care (LeadCare II) instruments
- How to minimize contamination when collecting a finger stick sample
- How to upload point of care (LeadCare II) blood lead results to the Utah Blood Lead Laboratory Reporting Portal
Children and parents
- Managing elevated blood lead levels among young children
- Help me be lead free
- Guidelines for the identification and management of lead exposure in pregnant and lactating women
- Pregnancy and lead poisoning
- Pica and lead poisoning
- Fight lead poisoning with a healthy diet
- Lead poisoning prevention diet + 10 steps to protect your child from lead
Occupational exposure
Lead-based paint
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