Children in California show elevated lead levels at rates higher than Flint, Michigan - World Socialist Web Site
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Children in California show elevated lead levels at rates higher than Flint, Michigan
By Glenn Mulwray
3 April 2017
Recent data released by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and reports from the Reuters news agency have revealed that children in 29 California neighborhoods have tested for elevated lead levels at least as high as children in Flint, Michigan poisoned by that city’s 2014 decision to tap into the contaminated Flint River as the primary source of drinking water.
California’s hardest hit areas showed nearly 14 percent of children age 6 or younger with elevated lead levels, compared to 5 percent across the city of Flint at the height of the ongoing water contamination crisis.
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