Lead poisoning across the nation? New Jersey now on alert, 30 schools banning water
by: David Gutierrez
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, March 27, 2016
The nation has been rightly outraged by the recent large-scale lead poisoning of the children (and adults) of Flint, Michigan. Amid calls for the identification and punishment of the government officials responsible, however, a dangerous impression may have been created that the case of Flint is somehow unique.
In reality, the contamination of water supplies, including with lead, is alarmingly widespread in the United States. This was brought into sharp focus recently, when 30 separate New Jersey school buildings had to shut drinking fountains down after their water tested above the maximum “safe” threshold set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for lead levels.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dismisses the idea of such a threshold, noting that “no safe blood lead level in children has been identified.”
“Even low levels of lead in blood have been shown to affect IQ, ability to pay attention, and academic achievement,” the CDC says. “And effects of lead exposure cannot be corrected.”
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