Lead poisoning is a disease. It is most dangerous for children under six years old. In young children, too much lead in the body can cause permanent...

Most lead poisoned children have no special symptoms. The only way to find out if a child is lead poisoned is to have his or her blood tested. The...

Treatment of a lead poisoned child starts with finding and removing the lead hazards to which the child is exposed. This will include a lead...

No. Young children are usually more easily and seriously poisoned than older children or adults, but lead is harmful to everyone. Lead in the body of...

Lead paint in homes causes almost all childhood lead poisoning. Lead is so harmful that even a small amount of fine lead dust that cannot be seen can...

There can be a danger of lead poisoning whenever painted surfaces inside or outside the home are scraped for repainting, or woodwork is stripped or...

The first step is to have a lead inspection or risk assessment done. A licensed lead inspector will test the surfaces of the home for lead and give...

In Massachusetts, the owner or someone who works for the owner (an agent) can do certain deleading activities. These include covering surfaces with...

There is a state income tax credit of up to $1,500 per unit for full deleading. A credit of up to $500 per unit is available for interim control work...

Many homeowners have found that the benefits of deleading are not unlike the benefits of other home improvement projects. Replacement windows and...

Owners of homes built before 1978 where children under six years of age live must have the following lead hazards corrected to get a Letter of...

Interim control is a set of temporary measures that property owners can take to correct urgent lead hazards, especially peeling or chipping lead...

Residents must be out of the house for the entire time that a deleader is doing deleading work inside a home, and for some of the deleading work by...

The Lead Law applies only to homes built before 1978 in which a child under six lives. Any home or apartment having fewer than 250 square feet of...

When there is a lease with an option to buy a home built before 1978 in effect, the owner of the property must have it deleaded or brought under...

All lead inspections, risk assessments and deleading must be done according to the Regulations for Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control, 105 Code of...

Included as part of this notification package is a listing of private licensed lead inspectors organized alphabetically, and private licensed risk...

The best time to delead a home or bring it under interim control is when the home is vacant, so that residents will not be exposed to lead and...

Under the state Lead Law, a Letter of Compliance is a legal letter that says either that there are no lead paint hazards or that the home has been...

The answer depends on the number of units that the property owner wishes to insure, and whether the property owner lives in the building for which...