Thread: Lead Ban Stops Youth ATV and Motorcycle Sales

Originally Posted by slickwill

Today I was working with a different doctor than usual. He was complaining about the requirement from the schools to have a blood lead level for a child before they could start kindergarten, he then says, "in my fourteen years in practice I've never had a single child with an elevated lead level."

I then told him about this law, he was blown away. I'm glad we're saving the kids from something that is obviously such a huge problem...yeah, obviously not. This is all such a disaster.

Perhaps the blood lead testing should be determined by the state. Here in Missouri there is actually a problem with high levels of lead in blood because there were some big lead mining communities here. I used to play at an old mine site when I was little. Perhaps that explains some things... Several years ago in my hometown, the EPA had to go into several neighborhoods and remove a few feet of soil and replace it with clean soil.

I can see being more restrictive with selling things containing lead. It is not uncommon for us to run toxicology panels on dead animals and fine elevated blood lead levels. Turns out there were old engines or something like that tossed out in the field, and for some reason the dumb animals think licking old engines is a cool thing to do.

All that said, this motorcycle crap is ridiculous. One of the first things I taught my son when he got his ATV was not to lick any part of it. He really wanted to and put up a fight, but I said, "No. You may not lick this."