"Underpinning China's lead-poisoning epidemic is a tension between the government's goals for economic growth and its efforts to curb environmental degradation," says the June report, which is based on examination of the ill effects of manufacturing in selected provinces. ❋ James T. Areddy (2011)
The moves suggest the city is rethinking the balance between economic growth and safety after a series of lead-poisoning scandals around the country. ❋ James T. Areddy (2011)
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called the lead-poisoning outbreak unprecedented, with a large number of deaths over just a few months and dozens of young children found to have dangerously high levels of lead exposure. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Researchers studied 25 of the 200 lead-poisoning deaths across the nation in the past twenty years, and found that 20 of them could be linked to moonshine. ❋ MAX WATMAN (2010)
A lead-poisoning outbreak in Nigeria due to gold-mining practices has killed at least 163 people, mostly children. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"I've never seen anything like this before," said Antonio Neri, a medical epidemiologist with the CDC's healthy homes and lead-poisoning prevention branch who spent more than three weeks investigating the outbreak in Nigeria. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Under the leadership of council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), a group of building owners, scientists, advocates, policymakers and others worked to achieve consensus on the 2008 lead-poisoning prevention law. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But, after years of doing so, they would get lead-poisoning and/or cancer from the Kryptonite radiation. ❋ Unknown (2009)
BEIJING -- Lead production in China rose in August, defying market fears that lead-poisoning scandals would prompt smelter closures in a government clean-up, a prospect that sent international lead prices soaring last month. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Prices likely are to stay supported at the higher levels until Chinese government authorities announce how they will respond to lead-poisoning cases, analysts said. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Not all Americans are at equal risk, says Mary Jean Brown, chief of the lead-poisoning prevention branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Was the problem of lead-poisoning known to the Wedgwoods? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Many of these products pose little or no risk of lead-poisoning to children — or anyone else. ❋ Unknown (2009)
What if landlords and property owners had to show that their rental properties do not present a lead-poisoning hazard before a family with a young child moves in? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Congress is already investigating the D.C. lead-poisoning episode. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Unfortunately, the lead-poisoning episode isn't the only recent example of the CDC engaging in behavior that looks suspiciously like a cover-up. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even in Wisconsin, a model for lead-poisoning prevention, state officials said earlier this month that only half of 97,000 Medicaid-enrolled children got required blood tests. ❋ Unknown (2007)
