The damage lead does to a developing brain is not "modern PC press garbage." It was discovered literally when I was still in swaddling clothes.
That information was committeed to death for decades before any American health organization took it seriously, and even then only because pretty much the entire rest of the developed world, and half the undeveloped world, kept asking us 
and "When the holy hell are you gonna do something about this?!?"
ANY LEAD in a developing brain is TOO MUCH. Period. And it's still not good for us old punks with ossified frontal lobes, either.
mnem
While you're at it, purge aluminum cookware from your life as well.
Lead itself is not the problem, it's how we use it, handle it and dispose of it !
Yes when I was a kiddie we knew the dangers of lead based paint on toys and that
should've flagged us for life as to the dangers of exposure to lead and using it carefully. It did for me.
When removing 80+ years of lead paint from my house some 20 years back we chose to strip it with hot air and a broad knife rather than use the faster method of a 7" pad and #24 grit sanding pads as the prospect of containing the dust was impossible. We had young kids at the time so the risk of contamination was extremely high and unacceptable.
Every substance we come into contact has negatives even such inert ones as glass that can scar and cut us up so much to damage bodily functions for life.
Lead based starter batteries pose a greater risk to the environment but such is their value as scrap most are recycled ATM but one wonders if lead products are on some continual ban list will their scrap value diminish to the point where they won't be recycled ?
Alloy cookware, well yes I've seen the damage that can do to a guy just a year or so older than me.....poor guy has had buggered health for 30+ years.
In years gone by stuff like asbestos cladding was endorsed by gubbermints of the day and it was used on dwellings, schools and industry and worked well for decades. Come to remove it now..........well what a fiasco of legislation one must jump through to even get onto a site where it is. Been there done all that from the fixing of new sheets on schools when I was a chippy in my youth and decades later donned in a white disposable suit and respirator working on a residential site where it had been used as landfill but where a new house was to be.
Talk about one extreme to the other......shit we even had to pass through a double air lock thingy dropping the suit and boots while 2 yards away on the other side of a security fence was the footpath where the locals came to watch dressed in their normal clothes.
Education to risks is the key not to remove risk and personal responsibility by wrapping populations in cotton wool to protect us from ourselves.
Why would we even get out of bed in the morning to face all the risks life can throw our way ?
Far greater risk of getting killed in a motor accident than all this BS.
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