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Call for lead testing in high-risk children
Nursery World,
3 January 2002
Children with behavioural and developmental disorders should be routinely tested for lead, which is a known, but treatable, neurotoxin, say the authors of new research. Lead is not now considered to be a public health problem in the UK. However, in the US the substance is still considered a potential threat to children's development and extensive lead screening programmes have been carried out since the early 1960s.
Children with behavioural and developmental disorders should be routinely tested for lead, which is a known, but treatable, neurotoxin, say the authors of new research. Lead is not now considered to be a...
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