Global Lead Intelligence

Open evidence on lead contamination in consumer products. Six public sources harmonised into one schema: 15,159 lead measurements from Pure Earth's Rapid Market Screening, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Public Health Seattle & King County; country context from the WHO lead paint law tracker (195 countries, with the year each law came into force) and IPEN paint studies compiled by Our World in Data; and 904 recalls and alerts from the FDA, CPSC and RASFF. Every row keeps its source, sampling strategy, measurement operator, detection limit, result status and origin confidence, so that biases stay visible instead of being averaged away. 41% of the measurements come from investigations opened after a poisoning, which makes a single combined detection rate uninterpretable. Every raw download is recorded with its URL, timestamp, size and SHA-256 checksum, so a published figure can be reproduced against the exact snapshot used. This documents the contamination of products, not human exposure. It is neither validated nor endorsed by the organisations that produced the underlying data.