Lead Poisoning In Children In China
Due to lead being found in paint, food, water other sources, almost 10 percent of Chinese children experience lead poisoning. Pollution and lead poisoning are major problems right across China.
In the latest incident of mass lead poisoning in China, 600 people fell sick, including 103 children.
Lead poisoning in several provinces in 2009 and 2010 affected thousands of children because they lived close to metal smelters or battery factories.
In the latest cases the victims’ were workers, as well as their children, in 25 family-run tinfoil processing workshops in Yangxunqiao, in Zhejiang province in eastern China, according to the official Xinhua News Agency report. The workers and their families are constantly exposed to lead materials as lead is used in the tinfoil processing.
The workshops have now postponed their operations according to the report.
Following the high number of people sickened by lead and cadmium poisoning, in May 2010, production was suspended at hundreds of battery factories in the same province, plus the detention of seventy four people.
A year-old manganese factory in Wenping Township, Hunan province, central China poisoned over 1,300 children in 2009. This was the second case in just two weeks. The authorities shut down the factory and arrested two executives on suspicion of ‘causing severe environment pollution’.
Earlier, almost 700 villagers rioted due to the news breaking, regarding the lead poisoning. They damaged a local government sign and inverted police cars. Hunan is widely recognized for its heavy metal industry.
Thousands of Chinese products were recalled by U.S in 2007 for being faulty, dangerous or toxic, including toys, tools, dog food, baby bibs, tires, computer batteries, toothpaste and children’s jewelry.
In 2006 more than 2,000 villagers, including over 300 children, became sick from lead poisoning from a smelting plant in Hui county, in Gansu province, north China. The government ordered the factory to close and move to a safer location. The factory was pumping out polluted waste water, emitting dark fumes and thick clouds of dust.
Local authorities are belatedly moving to cut back pollution due to Beijing’s statement about plans for tighter oversight, in response to reports of widespread contamination from heavy metals. Authorities at this time are not required to conduct expensive tests for heavy metals, which accumulate over time.
Even though the use of lead has been widely made illegal, China still uses it because it is cheap, goes on easily, creates vivid colours and resists corrosion.
Lead poisoning can destroy the muscular, reproductive and nervous systems, create brain damage comas and kidney failure. Kids are the highest risk group.
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Rick and Wendy are CEO’s of YouMe Support Foundation charity that gives away non repayable high school education grants to children who will never have the opportunity to have a high school education without outside assistance.
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