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Re: Lead is still bad for your brain

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I'm in Europe and I see no way to get such tests. Other than lying and saying that you are at risk of contamination ("My hobby was glassworking"), I never saw any kind of test that you could pay yourself. Everywhere the government says "100% reimbursed", but you cannot even order one by yourself unless you have a good reason. So, I don't even know if it's expensive or not.

A friend got a routine physical and blood screening last week and to my surprise it included testing for lead acetate. I've never seen that before.

Oops! Just found out that a lead acetate level test is for particular proteins and is NOT used to detect blood lead levels:

https://microbenotes.com/lead-sulfide-test/#result-and-inter...

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