January 5, 2012 | HealthDay News
Pediatric health experts are applauding a U.S. advisory panel’s recommendation to lower the threshold for toxic lead exposure in children.
Lead, a metal once common in gasoline and house paint, can permanently damage developing brains.
On Wednesday, the Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention voted to recommend that the federal government change the standard for lead poisoning from 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood to 5 micrograms. This was the first time in two decades that the panel recommended lowering the levels. [...]