The most important route of occupational exposure to lead is:
A. IngestionB. Absorption
C. Inhalation
D. Absorption
Ans. C. inhalation
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Populations are exposed to lead chiefly via paints, cans, plumbing fixtures and
leaded gasoline.
• The intensity of these exposures remains high because of the deterioration of
lead paint used into the past and the entrainment of lead from the paint and
vehicle exhaust into soil and household.
• Greatest source of environmental
(non-occupational) is gasoline
• Most common mode of absorption in case of occupational lead poisoning is inhalation of flumes and dust of lead and its compounds
