tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6783095578355381199.post1796819463537139818..comments2024-03-08T19:19:27.806+02:00Comments on Environment, Law, and History: Lead regulation in historyDavid Schorrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660528755791077974noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6783095578355381199.post-64705833468560046452016-03-28T21:34:31.584+03:002016-03-28T21:34:31.584+03:00Thanks for the clarification and the update!Thanks for the clarification and the update!David Schorrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17660528755791077974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6783095578355381199.post-87677252959281873202016-03-28T21:05:14.200+03:002016-03-28T21:05:14.200+03:00Hi David:
Came across this interesting post accide...Hi David:<br />Came across this interesting post accidentally and belatedly. Actually, it wasn't the League of Nations but the International Labour Organization (ILO, though created by the League in 1919) which adopted Convention No. 13 concerning the use of white lead in painting in 1921. Virginia Steinbrecher rightly highlights US opposition (thanks mainly to the Lead Industries Association), but several other countries also never ratified the Convention (among them Canada, Germany, Israel, the UK, and of course China - chief culprit in producing lead-painted toys!). There is a nice environment-law-history article on the issue by Christopher Sellers, "Cross-Nationalizing the History of Industrial Hazard", Medical History 54 (2010) 315-340.<br />Cheers,<br />- Peter Peter H. Sandhttp://www.jura.uni-muenchen.de/personen/s/sand_peter_h/)noreply@blogger.com