Half of US adults were exposed to harmful lead levels as kids, study finds
by Associated Press from Environment | The Guardian on (#5WVT0)
Researcher calls findings infuriating' as team finds significant impact on cognitive development
Over 170 million Americans who were adults in 2015 were exposed to harmful levels of lead as children, a new study estimates.
Researchers used blood-lead level, census and leaded gasoline consumption data to examine how widespread early childhood lead exposure was in the country between 1940 and 2015.
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