Does your home contain lead? To find out, answer this simple question:

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Do you live in an older home? One that was built before 1950?

Answer: If you answer 'I don't know' you're not alone. Most people don’t know the age of their house. In fact a lot of people guess incorrectly 50% of the time. If you live in Renfrew County Ontario you can use our Lead Risk Search to look up your home address to see if it was built before 1950.

Lead is a serious brain poison that is especially harmful to developing infants and children. Believe it or not it was used in Canadian interior house paint legally until June 2005.

While not all older homes pose lead hazards, many do, and there are some precautions that you as a homeowner, parent, and/or tenant need to know about.

If you are unsure when your house was built, or if you suspect that your house contains lead paint and you would like to test your home, click here to download our free step by step directions for lead testing.

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The First Six Years is a grass roots organization whose primary mandate is the promotion of optimal social, physical, and environmental conditions for the development of healthy productive children. We achieve this goal through the use of environmental monitoring and surveillance and public and professional education.

We recognize that the first six years of a child’s life is an important period of brain and nervous system development. Children during this period of rapid growth are highly susceptible to the toxic influences of environmental threats such as lead, mercury, PCBs, pesticides and ionizing radiation.

Does your home contain lead? To find out, answer this simple question:

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