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04/03/2018 / By Edsel Cook

More cases of lead poisoning in Michigan – this time in Grand Rapids

If you’re a resident of zip code 49507 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, chances are you’ve been exposed to high – or even dangerous – levels of lead. And unlike the ongoing crisis in Flint, the culprit is the paint on your windows, reported Wood TV. Lead exposure has plagued Grand Rapids for years. And nowhere […]

02/03/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Old plastic toys could be dangerous: Study finds many contain toxic chemicals that have since been banned

Secondhand plastic toys may save you some money, but you may be putting your children’s health at risk if you let them play with it. This is because a study found that old plastic toys contained high levels of toxic chemicals. In conducting the study, a group of scientists from the University of Plymouth in the […]

01/26/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Millions of documents about chemical toxicity have been compiled into database, ToxicDocs, now available online

There is no doubt that toxic products are everywhere you look these days. For every headline about a product recall, there are countless other items that are either ignored or given a free pass, slowly poisoning us and our planet. Public health historians David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz have been documenting the history of toxic […]

10/24/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Lead in L.A.: Toxic fumes from chemical leaks making thousands of families sick, state can’t afford cleanup

More than 10,000 families who live near an old battery plant near Los Angeles, California have been exposed to toxic fumes due to chemical leaks, according to a Daily Mail report. Exide Technologies, an old battery-recycling plant in Vernon, closed down in 2015 after reports stated that dozens of residents living near the area were […]

05/03/2017 / By Russel Davis

EPIDEMIC: 38 States have reported toxic lead levels in children

A large number of children with elevated blood lead levels (EBLL) might have been left undiagnosed in the U.S., according to a study published in Pediatrics, the flagship journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). As part of the study, the researchers pooled data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Childhood Lead Poisoning […]

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