#leadcontamination

[diallokenyatta]

Leaded Gasoline 1920-2021 🇺🇲 "Lead poisoning causes immense societal harm: brain damage, chronic illness, lowered IQ, elevated mortality. Lead exposure in childhood has been linked with violent crime rates decades later. Extremely high lead levels can lead to seizures, coma, and death. Lower levels tend to cause less detectable harm, but there’s no safe level of lead exposure: Scientists’ current best guess is that any lead exposure at all causes harm... ...The EPA estimates that the amount of lead used in automotive gasoline in the US fell by 99 percent between 1976 and 1989. Measured blood lead levels followed. Crime rates dropped, too. Those benefits were realized even though the lead used in gasoline (and in paint and other consumer products) before bans on its use is still widespread in our soil and dust and still posing a major public health challenge." VOX #WhiteHistoryMonth #WHM2023 #EyesOnTheLiez #AutoImdistry #FossilFuels #LeadContamination #Toxicity #WomensLiberation #Pollution #OccupationalHazard #IndustrialPollution #ClassWar #Capitalism #ProfitsOverPeople ⛽️☣️🚘🧠☠️🌏 (at United States) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoLIZmTud4x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rodspurethoughts]

FDA Expands Cinnamon Applesauce Recall: Lead Contamination Concerns

FDA expands recall of cinnamon applesauce pouches due to lead contamination. Illnesses potentially linked to recalled product reported. Investigation is ongoing. #FDARecall #LeadContamination #FoodSafety

FDA Advises Parents and Caregivers Not to Buy or Feed WanaBana Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree Pouches to Toddlers and Young Children Because of Elevated Lead Levels In a recent development, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an updated advisory regarding the investigation of elevated lead levels in cinnamon applesauce pouches. This update includes an expanded recall from WanaBana LLC,…

[nambyhamby]

@andrew_s_clements perfectly captured me being excited about lead contamination. #wildsam #leadcontamination #ithacagun #ithacafalls #cornell #ivyleague #morninghike #nofilter #yikes #gpoy #ijltp #newyork #christmasvacation (at Ithaca Falls) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br-ueaGBDp-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5ut5cm8vsv0h

[lili814]

Please.shate repost via @instarepost20 from @cannibiscannibal "This is EXTREMELY important. ☝ For the cleanup effort in Houston and effected areas. 👌 #TagSomeone #Texas #Houston #PortArthur #Louisiana #HurricaneHarvey Now. After the exposure to water? Homes may also have... #Asbestos #LeadContamination If you can? Find a mask with a #HEPAFilter 👈 Those are very effective. Regardless of what kind it is... 🚨PLEASE use a mask to cover your nose and mouth while cleaning.🚨 #AllMasksMatter PLEASE try to prevent inhaling dangerous contaminants within the home or clean up areas." ✊ #TellAFriend2TellAFriend #PuffPuffPassKnowledge #ReportingFromTheRabbitHole #LurkAndLearn #instarepost20

[theforumhsph]

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

LEAD CONTAMINATION BEYOND FLINT: Drinking Water and Children's Health

On the whole, American drinking water is safe. However, more than a year after toxic lead levels forced a federal state of emergency in Flint, MI, 63 percent of Americans report that they worry a great deal about polluted drinking water. This statistic comes from a new Gallup poll indicating that water pollution ranks the highest of six environmental concerns among respondents. While pipes in Flint are expected to be replaced with the help of a $97 million settlement, there are other cities with histories of unsafe lead levels — or other toxins — in drinking water. These contaminants can threaten health, particularly among children. This Forum will grapple with safekeeping American drinking water supplies. Does the drinking water infrastructure need replacement? How would such an effort look? Do public alert systems help? What about other potential lead exposure sources? What is the role of regulation in a time of proposed deep cuts to EPA funding? What does the public need to know? Join us for this timely discussion in advance of Earth Day. 

————————————————————————————- ENGAGE WITH US: Send our panelists questions in advance to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu

Tweet us @ForumHSPH #LeadContamination

We will be conducting a live chat on this page during the event: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/lead-contamination-beyond-flint/

WATCH THE LIVE WEBCAST ON OUR WEBSITE:

https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/events/lead-contamination-beyond-flint/

on Thursday, April 20th, 2017, 12:30-1:30pm ET

We also will stream live on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Forumhsph/

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Jeffrey Griffiths Professor of Public Health, and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Former Chair, US EPA Drinking Water Committee, Science Advisory Board

Maitreyi Mazumdar Pediatric Neurologist, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Eric Feigl-Ding Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Founder of Toxin Alert, the first geo-social network and public alert system for drinking water toxic contamination

Stephen Estes-Smargiassi Director of Planning and Sustainability, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority

Moderated by Erin Schumaker, Senior Healthy Living Editor, The Huffington Post

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Presented jointly with The Huffington Post

Part of: Policy Controversies.

Image Credit: iStockphoto.com/caristo

[spanky606]

@Regrann from @ub.newz - Welcome to America... where black children are worth less than car paint... pt2... #FlintWaterCrisis #RickSnyder #BlackChildren #LeadContamination #Flint #Detroit #Philadelphia #Baltimore #LasVegas #Outkast #BombsOverBaghdad #NiggaNews #NegusNews #CoonVision #TripleN #ubNews #ubNews Beat by @dtvjc Follow the backup page @ubnewz #Regrann

[spanky606]

@Regrann from @ub.newz - Welcome to America... where black children are worth less than car paint... pt1... #FlintWaterCrisis #RickSnyder #BlackChildren #LeadContamination #Flint #Detroit #Philadelphia #Baltimore #LasVegas #Outkast #BombsOverBaghdad #NiggaNews #NegusNews #CoonVision #TripleN #ubNews #ubNews Beat by @dtvjc Follow the backup page @ubnewz #Regrann