'We're using children's blood as detectors': how the US fails with lead exposure

Hundreds of thousands of children in the US remain at risk of exposure to lead, which causes cognitive and behavioral deficits

Antoinette Catholdi-Dow, a 30-year-old mother of two, first started noticing little bite marks on the window sills in 2015, when her son was about two and a half years old.

The window sills were the perfect height to help her toddler pull himself up to stand and walk. Eventually, Catholdi-Dow would enter the room and catch her son nibbling along their edges.

We’ve got to test the houses, not only the children who have already been exposed.

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2XaMMaf