The agency estimated that the new limits — which are voluntary for food manufacturers — could reduce lead exposure from processed baby foods by 20% to 30%.
but also due to decades of leaded gasoline and leaded water pipes, we still have toxic levels of lead in the air, soil, and groundwater in many food-producing regions.
And there it is. Leaded gasoline.
Leaded pipes can be replaced, or water can be treated (iirc) to prevent it from leeching lead. Natural lead is far from uncommon, but usually is not in a form that ends up ingested.
But because they added lead to make it easier to produce engines that didn’t knock, we are paying the price for it world wide and to this day.
Because we never stopped using it. We just decided to only use it in planes, and than built all the farms in the flight paths because nobody wanted to live there.
What’s frustrating about that is we now have alternatives to 100LL, and it still hasn’t been phased out.
While expensive and would likelu make a lot of people really angry - regulators should have mandated that any non-diesal or non-turbine aircraft get scrapped. I would believe those fuel alternatives would have been found much quicker and be in use much earlier.
And there it is. Leaded gasoline.
Leaded pipes can be replaced, or water can be treated (iirc) to prevent it from leeching lead. Natural lead is far from uncommon, but usually is not in a form that ends up ingested.
But because they added lead to make it easier to produce engines that didn’t knock, we are paying the price for it world wide and to this day.
Because we never stopped using it. We just decided to only use it in planes, and than built all the farms in the flight paths because nobody wanted to live there.
What’s frustrating about that is we now have alternatives to 100LL, and it still hasn’t been phased out.
While expensive and would likelu make a lot of people really angry - regulators should have mandated that any non-diesal or non-turbine aircraft get scrapped. I would believe those fuel alternatives would have been found much quicker and be in use much earlier.