Here's the situation. Mum is a police officer and will be returning to work
in several months when the baby is around 6 or 7 months old. She has been
told that the policy if she is breastfeeding will be that she won't be
allowed to carry a firearm (effectively putting her on desk duty, she wants
to be on the street), because carrying a firearm means she will have to be
periodically practising at the firing range and they are concerned the
ensuing lead levels may pose a risk to the baby.

There seems to be a variety of opinions about this in the archives, but my
thought was that if her superiors are so concerned about the baby, why
aren't they concerned about the exposures of all the people using the
firing range? Is there any babsis to this? How does lead behave in the
body?

Donna Hansen
Burnaby, British Columbia
Canada
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