Objectives: The objectives of this pilot study were to determine the blood lead levels in children in Belize and to try to relate these findings to demographic variables.
Methods: With permission from parents, capillary blood was collected from the fingers of 164 children with an age range of 2 to 8 years, living and attending school in the spring of 2002 in four towns: Belize City, San Pedro, Orange Walk, and Benque Viejo. The sample represents 0.