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Emission and fate of lead in the European environment, 1958-1995
Hans von StorchHelmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht
4. December 2012 - Case Studies in Environmental Chemistry, Kemisk Institut, København Universitet
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Hans von Storch• Klimaforsker• Speciale: kystklima, dvs storme, stormfloder, bølger, Vesterhavet, Østersøen, Nordatlanten• Kooperation også med socialvidenskabsfolk• Direktør af Institut for Kystforskning ved Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht• Medlem af KlimaCampus „CliSAP“ Hamburg
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Jeg vil genere høre hvad I sznes om aktuelle spørgsmål vedrørende klima forsckning of klimapolitik
1. Hver får sådan en afstemmingsdims2. I skal ikke tænde dimsen.3. Når I ænsker at afstemme, bare trykker den apssende
nummer. Hvis du ikke ønsker at deltage, lad være.4. Når afstemmningen er færdige, vil resultatet vises på
skærmen5. Det er en anonym afstellning. Det er ikke mulitgt at
finde ud hvem har afstemt hvordan – vi ved ikke hvem har brugt hvilket dims.
Anonymt survey med Turning Technology
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Inforstået med Undersøgelsen?
1. Jo2. Nej3. Ligeglad.
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Menneskeskabt Klimaforandringer?
1. Jeg er overbevist om, at vi i øjeblikket oplever primært menneskeskabte klimaforandringer.
2. Jeg har alvorlige tvivl om, at vi har at gøre med primært menneskeskabte klimaforandringer.
3. Ingen udtalelse.
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Energipolitik1. Jeg støtter energipolitikken som
sænker grug af olie og kul med mindst x % indtil 2030 (Hedegaard planen)
2. Jeg finde sødan en plan umodne og forbundet med for høje omkostninger.
3. Jeg sznes ikke, at den videnskaelige vides kan legitimere sådan en energipolitik.
4. Jeg foretrækker en anden klimapolitik, f.x., tilpassning, kortvarig justering efter behov eller geoengineering
5. Ingen udtalelse
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Extreme vejrhændelser1. Jeg opfatter i det sidste årti enf forstærkning
af regionale stormbegivenheder.2. Vores storme har altid været farligt, men en
systematisk ændring i retning af mere eller kraftigere storme kan jeg ikke afgøre.
3. Ingen udltalese.
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Videnskabens rolle1. Videnskaben bør gøre politiske anbefalinger
til at håndtere problemer, hvis første tegn er synlige, at der er et alvorligt problem.
2. Videnskaben bør gøre politiske anbefalinger til at håndtere problemer, hvis en konsensus er lavet i videnskaben om emnet.
3. Videnskaben bør ikke være nogen anbefalinger, men kun beskrive problemet og mulige løsningsstrategier.
4. Ingen udtalelse 0% 0%0%0%
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Om bly I miliøetA. Det var et problem.B. Der var og stadigvæk er et
problem.C. Ved ikke.
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Kemisk Institut, København, 29.April 2004
Miljøbelastning med anthropogene stoffer
Eksempel „bly“, emissioner og deponering i Europa, 1958- 1995
Hans von StorchInstitut für Küstenforschung, GKSS Forschungszentrum
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Motivation1. Prototypical example of a reconstructing of flow
and deposition of anthropogenic matter on the regional scale (50 - 1000 km).
2. Lead is chosen because the substance is during its aerial transport almost inert – that is, the problem is technically less challenging than with, say, mercury or POPs.
3. Lead is also chosen because of the highly variable emissions, with an unabated increase until about 1970 and several political regulations in the 1970s and 1980s, which ended with the out-phasing of lead in gasoline.
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Lead emission
Total gasoline sale
Consumption of gasoline in Germany (mio.litres) and associated lead emissions (tons)
Political regulation in 1971, 1975 and 1985.
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Overview• General analysis of lead pollution• Accumulation in eco-systems and humans • Reconstructed emissions• Simulation of transport and deposition of emitted lead, 1958-1997• Conclusions
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ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS OF LEADIN EUROPE 1955–1990
Petersen (1998)
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Sources of lead emissions, 1955-1995
Costa-Cabral, 2001
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General overview of lead pollution
Hagner, C., 2000: European Regulations for Reducing Lead Emissions from Automobiles - Did they have an Economic Impact on the German Gasoline and Automobile Markets? Regional Environmental Change 1: 135-152
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Source: Umweltbundesamt 2001
Atmospheric Lead Concentration in German Urban and Rural Areas 1970-1989
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Data source: Pb – monitoring of the German Environmental Ministry (1998) and Landesamt Nordrhein –Westfalen(1998).
Atmospheric Lead Concentrations in German Conurbation and Rural Areas 1986 –1995
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Accumulation in eco-systems and man
Hagner, C., 2000: Regional and long-term patterns of lead concentrations influvial, marine and terrestrial systems and humans in Europe. Water, Soil and Air Pollution, in press.
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Data source: Heinzow 1998
Blood-lead levels (mg/l) from various studies in Germany, 1979–1997
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Data source: Umweltprobenbank 1999b
Lead concentrations (mg/g) in spruce (Picea abies) sprouts and poplar (Populus nigra) leaves in urban areas in Saarland, 1985-1996
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Data source: Umweltprobenbank, Research Center Karlsruhe, 1999
Lead concentration in annual beech leaves in German forest areas 1989-1997
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Lead concentration (mg/kg) in Blue Mussels (Mytilus Edulis) in the North Sea, 1982-1997
Data source: Ministry of Ecology of Niedersachsen 1999
* Sample stations: Bantsbalje ( 53°34’/ 7°01’); Borkum ( 53°35.4’/ 6°47.84’); Cuxhaven Leitdamm ( 53°53.05’/ 8°41.03’); Elmshörn Rinne ( 53°29.05’/ 6°54.00’);
Mellumbalje ( 53°41.09’/ 8 °08.08’)
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Lead concentrations in muscles and livers of Breams.
muscles
livers
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Space/time details of Emissions
Pacyna, J.M., and E.G. Pacyna, 2000: Atmospheric emissions of anthropogenic lead in Europe: Improvements, updates, historical data and projections. GKSS report 2000/31.
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European Gasoline Lead Content RegulationsInitial Regulations
Germany
– 1971, the ”German Environmental Programm” was passed
Increasing automobile emissions were considered to be a latent danger for humans, animals and plants
– 1972, legal max. lead content of gasoline: 0.4 g Pb/l
– 1976, legal max. lead content of gasoline: 0.15 g Pb/l
European Union
– 1978, the first EU-regulation of lead in gasoline was adopted:
– Gasoline with more than 0.4 g Pb/l was banned on EU-markets
Further Regulations
Germany
– 1984, unleaded gasoline was introduced on the German market, complemented by tax incentives
– Justified by widespread damage to forests due to NOx, CO and CxHy
– 1988, low-emission cars become obligatory
European Union
– 1989, obligation to offer super-unleaded gasoline in all member states
– lead in gasoline should be reduced to max. 0.15 g Pb/l
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Data source: German Environmental Ministry ,1998
Annual Lead Emissions in Different EU–Nations 1980 –1996
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Emissions
1955 1965
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Emissions
1975 1985
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Emissions
1990 1995
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Simulation of Transport and Deposition of Emitted Lead, 1958-1995
Costa-Cabral, M. C., TUBES: An exact solution to advective transport of trace species in a two-dimensional discretized flow field using flow tubes, submitted
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Atmospheric concentration
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deposition
Calculated depositions
1995
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Validation
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Mean annual Pb air concentration at Schauinsland, Germany.
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1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000
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Analysis
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model estimate
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Chemical / ecological dimension
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Overland transport
Schulte-Rentrop, A., M.Costa-Cabral, R. Vink, 2005: Modelling the overland transport of lead deposited from the atmosphere in the elbe catchment over four decades (1958-1995), Water , Air and Soil Pollution, Vol. 160, 1-4, pp.271-291
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Estimated deposition of lead in the Elbe catchment
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Flux of lead into the Elbe, 1958-1997
total
erosion runoff
Direct deposition
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Estimated lead concentration in the soil
Change from 1958-1995
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Lead concentration in the Elbe water
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Conclusions1. Reconstruction of regional environmental change is
doable with dynamical regional environmental models.
2. The environmental impact of past political and economic evolutions may be assessed quantitatively by a retrospective analysis. Scenarios of environmental impact of possible future socio-economic developments are possible to be constructed.
3. Lead reduction in gasoline was successful in reducing the presence of lead in the atmosphere, in terrestrial ecosystems and in men.
4. In aquatic ecosystems the increase of concentrations has been halted at a level well above the natural level. (How long is the residence time in sediment?)
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Kemisk Institut, København, 29.April 2004
Miljøbelastning med anthropogene stoffer
Eksempel „bly“:
konsekvenser, iagttagelser og helbred
Hans von StorchInstitut für Küstenforschung, GKSS Forschungszentrum
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1. Enhanced levels of lead in human blood- detailed study for Germany- rest of the world
2. Attention cycles in Germany, France and Great Britain (Kolb)
3. Short discussion of economic implications of lead regulations (Hagner)
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Enhanced levels of lead in human blood
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The case of Germany
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Questions
• Is it doable to estimate lead concentrations in the atmosphere and in human blood with a simple regression-type model?
• What were the levels of lead concentration in human blood in Germany in the 196s and 1970s (a time for which no measurements are available)?
• How can we design scenarios of lead levels in human blood conditional upon alternative political regulations?
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Annual gasoline sales and lead emissions in Germany. Volume of gasoline sold (millions of liters per year; solid) and of leaded gas (after 1985; red crosses); amount of lead added to gasoline (in tons; yellow).
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We have two data sets with time series of lead concentrations in human blood (LHB), beginning in the late 1970s. No reliable earlier data about lead in the human blood in Germany is available.
Data set “G” (“Germany”; Heinzow, 1998) is unsystematically collected, with samples at different locations, different methods, different age and gender groups.
The second data set “M” (“Münster”; Human-Probenbank Münster 2002;) is better, as it is derived from a controlled sampling strategy – for groups of students living in the industrial town of Münster (51.5oN, 7.4oE) in Nordrhine-Westfalia, close to the Ruhr area with heavy industry and intensive road traffic.
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Data set G (“Heinzow”) and M (“Münster”) with lead concentration in human blood (in mg/l). The G data are split into adults and children.
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Lead concentration in gasoline and in blood in Germany. Heinzow (G) and Münster (M) data sets. The lead concentration in 1985 to 1995 is an "effective" concentration for West Germany, by proportionally weighting the concentrations in of leaded (0.015 g/l) and unleaded (0.013 g/l) gasoline
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Data set G: There is a linear relationship between the mean concentration and the dispersion of the sample distributions.
standard deviation = 0.43 mean – 3.9, (1)95% quantile = 1.63 mean + 10.9 (2)
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Scatter diagrams of sample means (horizontal axis) and sample standard deviations
(dots, red) and 95% quantiles (diamonds, green) in lead concentrations in human
blood in data set G. In mg/l.
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Data set G: According to (1), if the mean blood concentration is 150 mg/l, then on average one sixth of the population will have more than 200 mg/l or less than 100mg/l. This rough estimate is based on the assumption of a normal distribution, which is not really valid as the distribution of lead levels is skewed, with a long tail towards large values
. Thus, it is more appropriate to use percentiles:
If the mean concentration is 150mg/l, then according to (2)
5% of the population may have a concentration of
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Critical Values of Lead Concentration in Human Blood
Category 1: unobstrusive valueCategory 2: no health risks are expected but monitoring is recommendedCategory 3: health hazards are possible, clarification and mitigation is needed
category value (μg//l)
children (6-14 years)women* (25-45 years)
123
≤ 100100 – 150
> 150
other adults 123
≤150150 – 250
> 250
Source: Krause et al. 1996
Defined by the `Human-Biomonitoring-Kommission´ in Germany
* women in child-bearing age
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In case of data set M, the 90% and 95% quantiles are given. Also in this case, a clear linear relationship between the mean and the quantiles is emerging with
90% quantile = 1.46 mean – 2.2 (3)95% quantile = 1.75 mean – 4.6. (4)
According to (3) and (4), a mean concentration of 150mg/l is associated with 5% (10%) of the population having more than 258 mg/l (217 mg/l) lead in their blood.
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Scatter diagrams of sample means (horizontal axis) and sample 95%
(diamonds) and 90% (dots) quantiles (vertical axis) in lead concentrations in human blood in data set M. In mg/l.
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A simple dynamical relationship between three variables, namely the emission of lead LEt in an area AE in the year t, the atmospheric concentration LCt in an area AC in the year t and the mean concentration of lead in human blood LHBt in the year t in the area AC.
LCt+1 = LCt + LEt+1 (5)LHBt+1 = LHBt + LCt+1 + (6)
Equation (6) is equivalent to(LHBt+1 - ) = (LHBt - ) + LCt+1 (7)
with = /(1-). Formulation (7) describes the dynamics of “anomalies” LHBt- relative to a “normal” state towards which the system converges as soon as the forcing LCt ceases if <1. For 0 < <1 the air concentration approaches asymptotically with a time scale of 1/(1-) if LCt=0.
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Estimates of emitted lead in Germany in tons/year.Dots: Linearly interpolated estimates by Pacyna and Pacyna (2000).Crosses: Estimates based on volume of gasoline sold in West Germany, according to MWV (1998, 2002)
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Pacyna linearly interpolatedbest guess according to (8)difference
Best guess of lead emissions in the 6-grid box AE surrounding Münster in tons/year. The times with an estimate from Pacyna is given by a big dot. The blue time series is used as input in the reconstruction 1955-1995 of lead concentrations in the air (5) and in the blood (7).
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Equation 5/6LCt+1 = α LCt + β LEt+1
LC = lead concentration in the atmosphereLE = total lead emissionLHB = lead concentration in human blood
LHBt+1 = γ LBHt + δ LCt+1 + ε
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modelling lead concentrationin air using (5)
6 cell AElinearly interpolated LCannual series LC
Lead concentration LCt in the air, in ng/m3, in the 50 50 km2 grid cell containing the
town of Münster as simulated in the reconstruction, and as
estimated using the linear model (5) (red) Münster
emissions LEt.LCt+1 = LCt + LEt+1 (5)
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Fit of equation (7) and test of equation (4) for data set M.. The upper two curves refer to the 95%-iles, and the lower two to the means. The estimated mean curve is derived by using simulated air concentrations in Münster and the 1981 observed blood level as initial value; the curve for the estimated 95%-iles is obtained by using the estimated means and applying formula (4).
(LHBt+1 - ) = (LHBt - ) + LCt+1 (7)95% quantile = 1.75 mean – 4.6. (4)
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Estimated mean, 90%ile and 95%ile lead concentrations in human blood in Münster, according to (6/7) and (3/4 (red solid lines, M). Additionally the mean level estimated with the Germany model is given as dotted blue curve (G). A level of more than 150 mg/l are considered in Germany as potentially harmful for children and women in child-bearing age (HBM 3). For other adults the limit for serious concern is set to 250 mg/l.
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Three scenarios of reduction of lead used as anti-knock in gasoline in Germany. The big black symbols describe the actual concentrations.
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Scenarios for mean lead concentrations (mg/l) in human blood, as derived by the Münster model (M, red, continuous) and for the Germany model (G, blue, dashed). Scenario 1 describes an evolution without regulation (i.e., ongoing use of 0.6 g/l lead in gasoline in Germany, upper curves). In scenario 2 no unleaded gasoline has been introduced in Germany in 1985 (middle curves), and in scenario 3, regulation was instituted in Germany already in 1961 (lower curves). The reconstructed lead levels in blood are also given as open (Germany model) and full circles (Münster model).
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Conclusions
• It is possible to reconstruct atmospheric lead concentrations and blood lead levels using a simple regression model
• It is possible to estimate lead concentrations in human blood using only lead emissions
• Reducing the lead content in gasoline was a successful environmental policy to limit human health risks
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Rest of the world
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USA
After Kitman, Nation 270, March 20, 2000
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May 8, 2001
New Warnings on Lead and ChildrenBy ERIC NAGOURNEYnew study raises questions about whether the current measure used to define lead poisoning is stringent enough.
Lead poisoning has been redefined over the years, as doctors have decided that smaller and smaller amounts are acceptable. It is now considered to occur at 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood.
But researchers told a recent gathering of the Pediatric Academic Societies of evidence that even at levels lower than that, lead in the bloodstream appears dangerous.
The primary researcher, Dr. Bruce Lanphear of the Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati, said that in the children he and his colleagues had studied, I.Q. declined in those with less than 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. The findings, he said, suggest that millions more children in the United States than previously suspected may be at risk.
"This is clearly a major public health crisis, and there really is too much complacency about this as a public health issue," he said.
The researchers studied 276 children born in five hospitals in Rochester, N.Y., and then kept track of them for five years, measuring their lead levels and then their I.Q.'s at age 5.
The researchers reported finding an inverse relationship between I.Q. and lead levels. Among all the children, they said, there was an average 5.5 percent reduction in I.Q. for every 10-microgram increase in lead.
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Lead Use in Gasoline in 1996
Country Western Europe
Lead Content in Gasoline (g/l)
Market Share of Leaded Gasoline (%)
Austria 0 0 (since 1993)
Belgium 0.013 26
Denmark 0 0
Finland 0 0
France 0.013 38
Germany 0.013 3
Greece 0.4 (0.15 in Athens) 67 (since 1995)
Iceland 0.013 15
Ireland 0.013 35
Italy 0.013 56
Luxembourg 0.013 18
Netherlands 0.013 14
Norway 0.013 2
Portugal 0.4 61
Spain 0.4 77
Sweden 0 0 (since 1994)
Switzerland 0.013 13
Turkey 0.4 82
United Kingdom 0.013 33
Country Central and Eastern Europe
Lead Content in Gasoline (g/l)
Market Share of Leaded Gasoline (%)
Bulgaria 0.15 95
Croatia 0.6 70
Czech Republic 0.15 45
Hungary 0.15 36
Moldova 0.4 100
Poland 0.15 30
Romania 0.6 94
Russian Federation 0.6 50
Slovak Republic 0 0 (since 1995)
Source: modified from World Bank 1997
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Thomas and Kwong, 2001
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Source: World Bank (1997), Heinzow et al. (1998)
Blood Lead Levels in Different Cities in 1980s and 1990s
US- scientists expect health dangers for children above a blood lead level of 100mg/l.German experts are convinced there can be health dangers above 150mgPb/l.
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