# Lead Poisoning Prevention among Internationally Adopted Children

Each country sets its own policies on regulations for environmental exposures such as lead. Not all countries have adopted the same standards as the U.S. In this video, learn about CDC's recommendations that all internationally adopted children have a blood lead test during the first medical examination in the U.S.

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This video can also be viewed at https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/stories/videos/Lead_Adoption.mp4

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Genres: Children's
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lead_Poisoning_Prevention_among_Internationally_Adopted_Children.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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