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Children can be exposed to lead by swallowing or inhaling soil while they are playing, authors say.
Lead in soil is the residue of degraded lead-based paint, pollution deposited by cars that burned leaded gasoline for decades .
Authors: Under new EPA standard, potentially harmful lead exposure from soil is far more widespread than many people including public officials realize.
There is little data on lead soil values across the U.S. that could be used to assess accuracy of community science samples.
Full remediation, which involves removing contaminated soils and replacing them with clean soils, can cost from US$10,000 to $30,000 per household.
But capping existing soils with clean soil or mulch is a faster and cheaper way to address the problem.
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