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International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (ILPPW)

Warning Out on Newly-Discovered Lead-Containing Spray Paints

1 November 2025, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has discovered a new spray paint brand sold online with lead content that would make it illegal to import, distribute, and sell in the Philippines. Based on the X-Ray…

Filipinos Take Stock of Progress towards Eliminating Lead Paint, Support Call to End Lead Exposure

22 October 2025, Quezon City.  Representatives from the government, industry, civil society, academe, and the youth gathered at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on October 21 for a lively forum held in conjunction with the International Lead…

Civil Society and Industry Groups Put Consumers On Guard against 228 Imported Paints with High Lead Content

18 October 2025, Quezon City. In an exceptional display of unity to uphold the lead paint ban and protect public health against lead exposure, civil society and industry groups of the Philippines released in time for the 13th International Lead Poisoning…

EcoWaste Coalition Raises the Alarm on 20 Imported Paints with Lead Content

12 October 2025,  Quezon City. In its latest effort to promote strict adherence to the national lead paint ban, the EcoWaste Coalition disclosed that the 20 spray paint samples it submitted to a private laboratory for confirmatory tests were verified…