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Q: How can I test if White Lead was used painting my walls?
It seems that some (or all?) brands of white wall paint still use "white lead" as white pigments. That stuff is cheap and poisonous. I am looking at my white walls with unease now. How can I find out if white lead was used?
11 years 41 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
There are test kits you can buy online. I don't think there is any simple way to do it other than by using a test kit.
outside China, paint manufactured after 1978 should not contain lead. In China, most paint manufactured today does contain lead.
There are two main ways to detect lead on paints, by buying a kit to do so, and they cost from $ 10 to $ 40 US dollars if can find one here, or scrape a sample and send it to a proper Laboratory.
And if paint on walls do worry you, please also think of the glasses, dishwares, decorations, toys, etc at your home. They all will also have lead on the paint used to decorate each item if manufactured in China.
comment not working, If there were no Lays original potato chips, I'd rather eat paint chips than the other stuff.
led paint this and led paint that back when my great grandpa was still painting, he mixed his own led paint every in large vats with his own bare hands for better quality. he did it for nearly forty years and he lived well into his 90s. led paint is only a problem if you are licking or eating it and it wont do much unless you are under 5 so stop worrying.
