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LEAD
NUMBER 1 HAZARD TO
CHILDREN, according to the EPA. Lead can be found in old
paints, dusts, solder, soils, and in fluoridated water. Although
the use of lead in U.S. gasoline declined since 1985, other
sources inject about 2 billion kilograms of lead into the
atmosphere in this country each year. An estimated 1.7 million
children in the United States have unacceptably high levels of
lead in their blood. National Institute of Health &
(Source: 1998 Cornell Study). According to the NRC, "the pandemic
scale of lead contamination... has increased lead concentrations
throughout the Northern Hemisphere by a factor of at least
10." The northern half of the planet now has at least 10
times as much lead in soil and water as it had before the arrival
of Europeans in North America. Source: Rachel's # 541.
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