Lead Testing

How much lead does it take to get lead poisoning?
The amount is incredibly small: 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood.
If you’re metrically challenged, here’s a way to visualize what that means.
o    A deciliter is about 1/2 of a cup.
o    A packet of sweetener (either the pink or blue stuff) is one gram.
o    There are one million micrograms in a gram.
o    So, divide the stuff from one packet into one million piles. (Pretend!)
o    Now, discard 999,990 of those “piles.”
o    Take the remaining 10 piles and mix them into half a cup of liquid.
Voila! You now have a representation of how much lead it takes to poison a child.