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Let's do more to protect children from toxic leads

Publication: Tri-State Defender
Date: Wednesday, June 18 1997


Tri-State Defender

06-18-1997

Let's do more to protect children from toxic leads

We think the latest information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) brings the right kind of attention to the fact that, although there has been a continuing drop in lead poisoning percentages in recent years, there is still much work to be done to save more children.

Alliance Alert, a publication by the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, put the report in proper perspective when the journal's headline said "CDC" Reports Continuing Decline in

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