Get the Lead Out: Panel Wants Kids’ Limits Halved – NPR

The Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention recently recommended that the amount of lead in a child’s blood that determines dangerous lead exposure should be cut in half.  The CDC, an organization that collaborates to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health, still needs to approve this recommendation. The advisory committee recommends that the current standard of 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood be reduced to 5 micrograms for ages 5 and below. This would be a big step, as it would result in double the number of young children in the United States officially considered to have lead poisoning to almost 500,000. Read more about this article here. Access the CDC Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention’s report on the hazards of low level lead exposure in children here.

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