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  1. A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

    5 days ago · A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked “We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.”

  2. A Century of Hair Shows How Lead Exposure Collapsed

    23 hours ago · By analyzing hair samples preserved across generations, scientists uncovered a striking record of how exposure soared before environmental rules and then collapsed after leaded gasoline …

  3. Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair – @theU

    6 days ago · Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair Researchers analyzed samples of Utahns' hair going back a century to document a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations.

  4. Your Ancestors Were Breathing in Two Pounds of Lead a Year ...

    4 days ago · Your Ancestors Were Breathing in Two Pounds of Lead a Year and Their Hair Proves It. After Lead Gas Ban, Lead Levels Dropped 100 Times The proof of environmental regulation success …

  5. Mormon Hair Clippings Preserve Legacy of US Ban on Leaded Gas

    2 days ago · Hair samples preserved in family scrapbooks across the past century have revealed the success of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to crack down on lead pollution …

  6. Preserved hair reveals just how bad lead exposure was in the ...

    6 days ago · There is no known safe level of lead exposure, the researchers wrote in the study. A major source of toxic lead exposure in the first half of the 20th century was leaded gasoline.

  7. Old Hair Reveals How Toxic America Once Was - SciTechDaily

    5 days ago · A century of hair samples shows how environmental rules helped slash Americans’ lead exposure by up to 100 times.