ArticleJournal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology2022
Investigating aluminum cookpots as a source of lead exposure in Afghan refugee children resettled in the United States.
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- Lead Screening Among Immigrant Children Seeking Humanitarian Protection in New York and Massachusetts, 2022-2024.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · 2026Article
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- A Public Health‒Community Partnership to Address Lead Poisoning in King County, Washington.American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Lead in traditional eyeliners: An investigation into use and sources of exposure in King County, Washington.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- A Snapshot of Lead in Consumer Products Across Four US Jurisdictions.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- Invited Perspective: Why Aren't We Doing More to Ensure Consumer Products Are Free of Lead?Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- Rapid Market Screening to assess lead concentrations in consumer products across 25 low- and middle-income countries.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Why we need a national repository of consumer product lead surveillance data.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundAfghan refugee children resettled in Washington State have the highest prevalence of elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) of any other refugee or immigrant population. Resettled families brought several lead-containing items with them from Afghanistan, including aluminum cookpots.
objectivesTo evaluate the potential contribution of lead-containing cookpots to elevated BLLs in Afghan children and determine whether safer alternative cookware is available.
methodsWe screened 40 aluminum cookpots for lead content using an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer and used a leachate method to estimate the amount of lead that migrates into food. We also tested five stainless steel cookpots to determine whether they would be safer alternatives.
resultsMany aluminum cookpots contained lead in excess of 100 parts per million (ppm), with a highest detected concentration of 66,374 ppm. Many also leached sufficient lead under simulated cooking and storage conditions to exceed recommended dietary limits. One pressure cooker leached sufficient lead to exceed the childhood limit by 650-fold. In contrast, stainless steel cookpots leached much lower levels of lead. SIGNIFICANCE: Aluminum cookpots used by refugee families are likely associated with elevated BLLs in local Afghan children. However, this investigation revealed that other U.S. residents, including adults and children, are also at risk of poisoning by lead and other toxic metals from some imported aluminum cookpots. IMPACT STATEMENT: Some aluminum cookware brought from Afghanistan by resettled families as well as cookpots available for purchase in the United States represent a previously unrecognized source of lead exposure.
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