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Octafish

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17. That's what they said about nationwide urban lead contamination.

Reply to geomon666 (Reply #16)

Sun Mar 6, 2016, 06:57 PM

Mar 2016

Oh, "and Puerto Rican."

Unbelievable story that rivals the tobacco-cancer Big Lie in scope:

Terry Gross of NPR: America's 'Lead Wars' Go Beyond Flint, Mich.: 'It's Now Really Everywhere'

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/03/469039064/americas-lead-wars-go-beyond-flint-mich-its-now-really-everywhere

What the lead industry and their captive regulators failed to mention: lead contaminated most everybody in the country during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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That's what they said about nationwide urban lead contamination. Octafish Mar 2016 #17