GazDetect Blog

Since the middle of the summer we have heard a lot about it: the Notre-Dame de Paris fire led to lead pollution in France’s capital city and especially around the cathedral. On July 18, 2019 the Île-de-France’s ARS (Regional Health Agency) published the lead concentrations measurements that they made around Notre-Dame after the fire. The analysis results are impressive: around the cathedral there is up to 400 times the regulatory lead threshold. What impact can this pollution have on health? What means and equipment should be adopted to protect workers involved in the decontamination and...