“With few early symptoms, lead silently wreaks havoc on children’s health and development, with possibly fatal consequences” UNICEF LeadPoisoning Children Health Lead
The report, the first of its kind, says that around one in three children – up to 800 million globally – have blood lead levels at, or above, five micrograms per decilitre , the amount at which action is required. Nearly half of these children live in South Asia.
The report – The Toxic Truth: Children’s exposure to lead pollution undermines a generation of potential – is an analysis of childhood lead exposure undertaken by the Institute of Health Metrics Evaluation and verified with a study approved for publication in Environmental Health Perspectives. It features five case studies in Kathgora, Bangladesh; Tbilisi, Georgia; Agbogbloshie, Ghana; Pesarean, Indonesia; and Morelos State, Mexico.
Informal and substandard recycling of lead-acid batteries is a leading contributor to lead poisoning in children living in low and middle-income countries, the report finds, where an increase in vehicle ownership and a lack of vehicle battery recycling regulation, has resulted in nearly half of lead-acid batteries being unsafely recycled in the informal economy.
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