Children's Environmental Health

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program: Data

Publications

• Troeschel AN, Buser MC, Winquist A, et al. Investigation of Lead and Chromium Exposure After Consumption of Contaminated Cinnamon-Containing Applesauce — United States, November 2023–April 2024. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74:239–244.
• Napier MD, Huneycutt A, Moore C, et al. Childhood Lead Exposure Linked to Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree Pouches — North Carolina, June 2023–January 2024. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2024;73:622–627.
• Angelon-Gaetz KA, Klaus C, Chaudhry EA, Bean DK. Lead in Spices, Herbal Remedies, and Ceremonial Powders Sampled from Home Investigations for Children with Elevated Blood Lead Levels — North Carolina, 2011–2018. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2018;67:1290–1294.
• Angelon-Gaetz, Kim, and Ann Newman Chelminski. 2018. "Running the Numbers: Trends in Lead Poisoning Prevention Data for Children Aged < 6 Years in North Carolina." North Carolina Medical Journal 79 (5): 339–42.
• Dignam TA, Lojo J, Meyer PA, Norman E, Sayre A, Flanders WD. Reduction of elevated blood lead levels in children in North Carolina and Vermont, 1996-1999. Environ Health Perspect. 2008 Jul;116(7):981-5. doi: 10.1289/ehp.10548. PMID: 18629325; PMCID: PMC2453171.
• Norman EH, Hertz-Picciotto I, Salmen DA, Ward TH. Childhood Lead Poisoning and Vinyl Miniblind Exposure. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1997;151(10):1033–1037. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1997.02170470067012.

Surveillance Data

• 2019 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 455 KB)
• 2018 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 505 KB)
• 2017 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 218 KB)
• 2016 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 219 KB)
• 2015 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 218 KB)
• 2014 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 218 KB)
• 2013 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 218 KB)
• 2012 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 15 KB)
• 2011 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 66 KB)
• 2010 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 58 KB)
• 2009, 2008, and 2007 Comparison of Medicaid Match Data (PDF, 18 KB)
• 2009 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 25 KB)
• 2008 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 27 KB)
• 2007 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 32 KB)
• 2006 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 31 KB)
• 2005 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 79 KB)
• 2004 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 20 KB)
• 2003 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 20 KB)
• 2002 Lead Surveillance Data (PDF, 21 KB)

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Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program Information

• CEHU Home Page
• Data
• Forms
• North Carolina Lead Surveillance System (NC LEAD)
  • NC LEAD FAQs
  • NC LEAD Reference Information
• Portable Blood Lead Analyzers
• Resources
  • Brochures, Fact Sheets, and other Educational Materials
  • Law and Rules
  • Links
  • NC Preventive Maintenance Program
  • Policy Memos
  • Training
  • Warnings and Recalls