Monday, January 14, 2013

Makeup can cause lead poisoning

Makeup can cause lead poisoning
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130114/A_NEWS/301140312

"The 1-year-old girl was playing "makeup" with her mother.  Every day, mom brushed a fine black powder, known as surma, around the little girl's eyes - a practice common in Pakistani and Indian cultures, to both enhance a child's beauty and to ward off the "evil eye."  But public health nurse Gail Heinrich knew it wasn't the evil eye this girl had to worry about."

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