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Once Again Lead Sickens 1300 Children in China
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by rumana husain | August 20, 2009 at 05:00 pm
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Children living near the manganese plant in Wugang have tested positive for high levels of lead in their blood. Lead, a dangerous substance for the nervous and reproductive system, has been found to cause a similar damage just over a week ago in Shaanxi Province where 851 children had tested positive for lead poisoning!
Lead pollution from a newly opened and unlicensed manganese smelter has poisoned more than 1,300 children in southeastern China’s Hunan Province, state-run media said on Thursday, the second case of mass lead poisoning in the past month.
Officials in Wenping, 970 miles south of Beijing, shut down the smelter, the Wugang Fine-Processed Manganese Smelting Factory, last week and detained two of its owners after about 1,000 local residents protested the poisoning, the English-language state newspaper China Daily reported.
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (5)
at 19:13 on August 20th, 2009
sounds more like indifference and corruption, yes it is sad indeed. thank you for your comments sara and luiz.
at 20:09 on August 20th, 2009
China needs to stop this.
at 04:48 on August 21st, 2009
Hence why consumers in North America buying Chinese Made goods wonder how can they make these goods so cheap. Yep, just another example why!
at 12:55 on August 25th, 2009
Your title says it all.. 'once again'... how sad