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California Schools Must Now Test For It","publishDate":1515592847,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When a therapy dog refused to drink the water at a San Diego grade school, it was the first clue that something was wrong.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tests soon revealed why the pup turned up its nose back in early 2017 — the presence of vinyl chloride, which is used to make PVC plumbing pipes and may be released as the plastic degrades. It’s also a known carcinogen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But further analysis of the water at the San Diego Cooperative Charter School found something else that had gone undetected by the dog, the teachers, and district officials: elevated levels of lead. The district conducted more tests last spring, and found harmful lead levels at other San Diego schools as well. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not an isolated problem. In Los Angeles, the district has been working for years to identify contaminated fountains and lower the lead levels. And after the much-publicized toxic lead contamination of water in Flint, Mich., a 2016 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead-testing/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reuters\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> report revealed that children in dozens of California neighborhoods had elevated lead levels in their blood. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lead is a neurotoxin that causes developmental disorders and brain damage. No amount of lead in humans is considered safe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, under a new law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in October, public schools are required to get their drinking water sampled for lead, and notify parents if they find traces of the toxic metal. Districts now have until July 2019 to test all campuses, including charter schools. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school-testing law requires districts to test for lead at least once a year, or once every three years, depending on when the buildings were constructed. If tests find that lead is higher than the state and federal threshold of 15 parts per billion, the school district must notify parents and shut down the contaminated water source until it can be fixed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“A more aggressive standard” \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Previously, California law gave school districts the option to obtain free testing from their local water supplier, but less than 10 percent of schools had taken advantage of the voluntary program. That’s what spurred \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) to sponsor the new testing bill. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You can’t have water with anything testing above the limits that are drinkable and not follow through and fix for the solution,” she said. “We want to ensure that when you find lead, water is shut off and parents are notified so they can have their kids tested.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Diego Unified has rolled out the strongest policy in the state. Its board decided in late July to set its own threshold at 5 parts per billion, well below the state and federal standard of 15.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We said the state action level was too high, and so we thought we should have a more aggressive standard,” said district spokesman Andrew Sharp. “We wanted to be able to say ‘Look, when kids go back to school in the fall, if there was a positive test for lead on your campus you should know we will have fixed that fountain or kids won’t be drinking from that fountain.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water sampling at San Diego public schools has \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://sandiegounified.org/watersampling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">revealed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> three campuses with at least one water source above 15 parts per billion, and another 33 sites with water that showed levels between 5 and 15 parts per billion.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The district is working to fix or close the problematic fountains, Sharp said, and intends to test every drinking water source at its schools in the next three to five years. In the meantime, it’s begun a daily “flushing” of fountains at all schools — staff members open the spigot for one minute, to flush through any stagnant water in older pipes and fixtures, which can leach lead into the water overnight. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flushing water fountains has been going on for decades in the Los Angeles Unified School District.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It became evident that a particular kind of drinking fountain had lead content,” said Robert Laughton, district director for environmental health and safety. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was that old style you used to see, that was the square-mounted stainless-steel thing, that was chilled,” Laughton explained. “Well, those old drinking fountains had lead-lined water basins in them, and so in 1988 we removed all of them and began random sampling and began flushing all fountains district-wide.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back then, the district lacked the money to replace or fix contaminated fountains, so at any school where even one water sample exceeded the lead limit of 15 parts per billion, janitors had to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/3450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">flush\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> every drinking source for 30 seconds each morning, said Mark Hovatter, chief facilities executive for the district. Once flushed, the fountains usually tested below the 15 ppb threshold. Those that did not were shut down.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hovatter said the district chose to “err on the side of safety” for the children, despite taking “a lot of heat during the drought for our flushing.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s because the flushing program sent 2.5 million gallons of water down the drain every year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Moving forward from preventive flushing to a permanent fix\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2009, the district began systematically testing every single drinking fountain for lead. And in \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2015 it finally appropriated nearly $20 million to end the flushing, by repairing or closing drinking fountains that tested high for lead. Laughton said all the district’s fountains will be fixed by this fall, and two-thirds of its schools have already been cleared to stop flushing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_362369\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-362369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-768x540.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-960x675.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at the 9th Street School in Los Angeles take turns drinking water after recess. It was pajama day at school. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Aguilera/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the district’s 41,000 fountains, only four percent had lead levels exceeding the 15 ppb limit, according to Mark Cho, an operations deputy. Since the project began, his teams have removed or shut off 800 of those fountains, and fixed or replaced 672.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the 9th Street School near downtown, children line up after recess to drink water. To move them along, a playground monitor gives each child five seconds to drink.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It tastes really good,” said Monica Marquez, 6, of the water.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It tastes like watermelon,” said Vivian Villegas, 7. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this school, flushing has already ended for all 43 fountains. Testing showed that none of them had to be fixed or shut down.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, officials in other school districts are calling Laughton and Hovatter, seeking advice on how to comply with the new law. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This isn’t a situation where you can stick your head in the sand and say ‘If I don’t think I’m going to like the answer I’m not going to ask the question,” Laughton said. “We are responsible to know.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet some public health advocates still consider the new law insufficient.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CALPIRG, a consumer advocacy group, had pushed a more stringent bill that would have required every school district to install filters and adopt a tougher lead limit for their drinking water — just one part per billion, instead of 15. But the bill died in committee. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jason Pfeifle, a \u003ca href=\"https://calpirg.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALPIRG\u003c/a> health advocate, said children shouldn’t be drinking water that may have lead levels up to 15 parts per billion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If a school finds a positive lead test, or finds that a drinking fountain has elevated levels of lead...then it’s already too late, and children have already been exposed,” Pfeifle said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Screening children before they get to school\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gov. Brown also signed into law a related bill to address lead levels in younger children, before they reach kindergarten. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This new \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1316\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">law\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> requires the Department of Public Health to develop a more comprehensive set of screening questions for doctors to use when determining which children should undergo lead-exposure testing. Previously, California only required testing of one- and two-year-olds enrolled in Medi-Cal or other programs for low-income families. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new risk-assessment questions, due in 2019, might \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">include asking whether the family lives near a major highway, or near the site of a former lead or steel smelter, or whether a child might be exposed because he or she spends time in another home or building. The law also requires the state health department to report the test results more promptly, post the data online, and indicate neighborhoods with significant lead-exposure problems. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Some kids in California have more lead than kids in Flint, MI\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How widespread is the problem? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that five percent of tested children in Flint had elevated lead levels in their blood. By comparison, two percent of tested children in California, mostly those on Medi-Cal, have elevated levels.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there are local hot spots in California where the data is alarming. In Alameda County, eight zip codes showed rates higher than or equal to Flint’s. Zip codes within Los Angeles, Monterey and Humboldt counties also showed higher rates of childhood lead exposure. In one \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/CLPPB/CDPH%20Document%20Library/zip_code_2012_250_tested.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fresno \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">zip code, nearly 14 percent of the children tested had elevated levels of lead.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">State health officials caution that the numbers are not an accurate representation of all children, because only those whom health providers believe may be at risk are actually tested.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the data is a few years old. Department officials say those figures come from 2012, and that the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/CLPPB/CDPH%20Document%20Library/BLL%20Counts%202012%20by%20LHD%20final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> set is the most recent they have on hand — despite the fact that labs across the state send in 700,000 test results for blood lead levels every year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The problem we have right now is we don’t know all the different sources of lead in the environment,” said Assemblyman Bill Quirk (D-Hayward), who sponsored the bill. “I hope it will lead to children who are at higher risk being tested, because pediatricians will ask more questions, and parents will ask more questions.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doctors and insurers didn’t want to have to test every single child \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quirk’s initially wanted the new law to require that all young children in children get tested for lead by their health provider. But the insurance industry, the California Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatricians lobbied successfully to remove that requirement from the bill. The medical association objected because universal testing would override a doctor's discretion, and require costly tests even when a doctor determines there is no risk, according to CMA spokeswoman Joanne Adams.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Currently about 80 percent of children on Medi-Cal are tested, Quirk acknowledged. But he points out that while low-income children are most vulnerable to lead exposure (because they often live in old or dilapidated houses), \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">any\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> child can be exposed to lead in a variety of ways—from school water fountains to soil in playgrounds.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think that every parent should think about having their child tested, period,” Quirk said. “Just ask your pediatrician to order, then you’ll know if there’s a problem. I have a grandchild that just arrived and I’m going to ask my daughter t\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">o have her child tested.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Janitors in LA spent years 'flushing' fountains. San Diego got ugly news after a teacher's dog refused to drink. And legislators wanted action after Flint. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1515577641,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":49,"wordCount":1916},"headData":{"title":"Lead in the Drinking Fountain? California Schools Must Now Test For It | KQED","description":"Janitors in LA spent years 'flushing' fountains. San Diego got ugly news after a teacher's dog refused to drink. And legislators wanted action after Flint. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Lead in the Drinking Fountain? California Schools Must Now Test For It","datePublished":"2018-01-10T14:00:47.000Z","dateModified":"2018-01-10T09:47:21.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"362364 https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=362364","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2018/01/10/lead-in-the-drinking-fountain-california-schools-must-now-test-for-it/","disqusTitle":"Lead in the Drinking Fountain? California Schools Must Now Test For It","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Aguilera\u003c/strong>\u003c/br>CALmatters","path":"/stateofhealth/362364/lead-in-the-drinking-fountain-california-schools-must-now-test-for-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When a therapy dog refused to drink the water at a San Diego grade school, it was the first clue that something was wrong.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tests soon revealed why the pup turned up its nose back in early 2017 — the presence of vinyl chloride, which is used to make PVC plumbing pipes and may be released as the plastic degrades. It’s also a known carcinogen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But further analysis of the water at the San Diego Cooperative Charter School found something else that had gone undetected by the dog, the teachers, and district officials: elevated levels of lead. The district conducted more tests last spring, and found harmful lead levels at other San Diego schools as well. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not an isolated problem. In Los Angeles, the district has been working for years to identify contaminated fountains and lower the lead levels. And after the much-publicized toxic lead contamination of water in Flint, Mich., a 2016 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead-testing/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reuters\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> report revealed that children in dozens of California neighborhoods had elevated lead levels in their blood. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lead is a neurotoxin that causes developmental disorders and brain damage. No amount of lead in humans is considered safe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, under a new law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in October, public schools are required to get their drinking water sampled for lead, and notify parents if they find traces of the toxic metal. Districts now have until July 2019 to test all campuses, including charter schools. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">school-testing law requires districts to test for lead at least once a year, or once every three years, depending on when the buildings were constructed. If tests find that lead is higher than the state and federal threshold of 15 parts per billion, the school district must notify parents and shut down the contaminated water source until it can be fixed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“A more aggressive standard” \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Previously, California law gave school districts the option to obtain free testing from their local water supplier, but less than 10 percent of schools had taken advantage of the voluntary program. That’s what spurred \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) to sponsor the new testing bill. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You can’t have water with anything testing above the limits that are drinkable and not follow through and fix for the solution,” she said. “We want to ensure that when you find lead, water is shut off and parents are notified so they can have their kids tested.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Diego Unified has rolled out the strongest policy in the state. Its board decided in late July to set its own threshold at 5 parts per billion, well below the state and federal standard of 15.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We said the state action level was too high, and so we thought we should have a more aggressive standard,” said district spokesman Andrew Sharp. “We wanted to be able to say ‘Look, when kids go back to school in the fall, if there was a positive test for lead on your campus you should know we will have fixed that fountain or kids won’t be drinking from that fountain.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water sampling at San Diego public schools has \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://sandiegounified.org/watersampling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">revealed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> three campuses with at least one water source above 15 parts per billion, and another 33 sites with water that showed levels between 5 and 15 parts per billion.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The district is working to fix or close the problematic fountains, Sharp said, and intends to test every drinking water source at its schools in the next three to five years. In the meantime, it’s begun a daily “flushing” of fountains at all schools — staff members open the spigot for one minute, to flush through any stagnant water in older pipes and fixtures, which can leach lead into the water overnight. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flushing water fountains has been going on for decades in the Los Angeles Unified School District.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It became evident that a particular kind of drinking fountain had lead content,” said Robert Laughton, district director for environmental health and safety. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was that old style you used to see, that was the square-mounted stainless-steel thing, that was chilled,” Laughton explained. “Well, those old drinking fountains had lead-lined water basins in them, and so in 1988 we removed all of them and began random sampling and began flushing all fountains district-wide.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back then, the district lacked the money to replace or fix contaminated fountains, so at any school where even one water sample exceeded the lead limit of 15 parts per billion, janitors had to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/3450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">flush\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> every drinking source for 30 seconds each morning, said Mark Hovatter, chief facilities executive for the district. Once flushed, the fountains usually tested below the 15 ppb threshold. Those that did not were shut down.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hovatter said the district chose to “err on the side of safety” for the children, despite taking “a lot of heat during the drought for our flushing.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s because the flushing program sent 2.5 million gallons of water down the drain every year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Moving forward from preventive flushing to a permanent fix\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2009, the district began systematically testing every single drinking fountain for lead. And in \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2015 it finally appropriated nearly $20 million to end the flushing, by repairing or closing drinking fountains that tested high for lead. Laughton said all the district’s fountains will be fixed by this fall, and two-thirds of its schools have already been cleared to stop flushing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_362369\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-362369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-768x540.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-960x675.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2018/01/20170802_CalMatters_Lea_Kids-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at the 9th Street School in Los Angeles take turns drinking water after recess. It was pajama day at school. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Aguilera/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the district’s 41,000 fountains, only four percent had lead levels exceeding the 15 ppb limit, according to Mark Cho, an operations deputy. Since the project began, his teams have removed or shut off 800 of those fountains, and fixed or replaced 672.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the 9th Street School near downtown, children line up after recess to drink water. To move them along, a playground monitor gives each child five seconds to drink.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It tastes really good,” said Monica Marquez, 6, of the water.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It tastes like watermelon,” said Vivian Villegas, 7. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this school, flushing has already ended for all 43 fountains. Testing showed that none of them had to be fixed or shut down.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, officials in other school districts are calling Laughton and Hovatter, seeking advice on how to comply with the new law. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This isn’t a situation where you can stick your head in the sand and say ‘If I don’t think I’m going to like the answer I’m not going to ask the question,” Laughton said. “We are responsible to know.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet some public health advocates still consider the new law insufficient.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CALPIRG, a consumer advocacy group, had pushed a more stringent bill that would have required every school district to install filters and adopt a tougher lead limit for their drinking water — just one part per billion, instead of 15. But the bill died in committee. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jason Pfeifle, a \u003ca href=\"https://calpirg.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALPIRG\u003c/a> health advocate, said children shouldn’t be drinking water that may have lead levels up to 15 parts per billion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If a school finds a positive lead test, or finds that a drinking fountain has elevated levels of lead...then it’s already too late, and children have already been exposed,” Pfeifle said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Screening children before they get to school\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gov. Brown also signed into law a related bill to address lead levels in younger children, before they reach kindergarten. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This new \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1316\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">law\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> requires the Department of Public Health to develop a more comprehensive set of screening questions for doctors to use when determining which children should undergo lead-exposure testing. Previously, California only required testing of one- and two-year-olds enrolled in Medi-Cal or other programs for low-income families. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new risk-assessment questions, due in 2019, might \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">include asking whether the family lives near a major highway, or near the site of a former lead or steel smelter, or whether a child might be exposed because he or she spends time in another home or building. The law also requires the state health department to report the test results more promptly, post the data online, and indicate neighborhoods with significant lead-exposure problems. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Some kids in California have more lead than kids in Flint, MI\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How widespread is the problem? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that five percent of tested children in Flint had elevated lead levels in their blood. By comparison, two percent of tested children in California, mostly those on Medi-Cal, have elevated levels.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there are local hot spots in California where the data is alarming. In Alameda County, eight zip codes showed rates higher than or equal to Flint’s. Zip codes within Los Angeles, Monterey and Humboldt counties also showed higher rates of childhood lead exposure. In one \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/CLPPB/CDPH%20Document%20Library/zip_code_2012_250_tested.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fresno \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">zip code, nearly 14 percent of the children tested had elevated levels of lead.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">State health officials caution that the numbers are not an accurate representation of all children, because only those whom health providers believe may be at risk are actually tested.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the data is a few years old. Department officials say those figures come from 2012, and that the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/CLPPB/CDPH%20Document%20Library/BLL%20Counts%202012%20by%20LHD%20final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> set is the most recent they have on hand — despite the fact that labs across the state send in 700,000 test results for blood lead levels every year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The problem we have right now is we don’t know all the different sources of lead in the environment,” said Assemblyman Bill Quirk (D-Hayward), who sponsored the bill. “I hope it will lead to children who are at higher risk being tested, because pediatricians will ask more questions, and parents will ask more questions.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doctors and insurers didn’t want to have to test every single child \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quirk’s initially wanted the new law to require that all young children in children get tested for lead by their health provider. But the insurance industry, the California Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatricians lobbied successfully to remove that requirement from the bill. The medical association objected because universal testing would override a doctor's discretion, and require costly tests even when a doctor determines there is no risk, according to CMA spokeswoman Joanne Adams.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Currently about 80 percent of children on Medi-Cal are tested, Quirk acknowledged. But he points out that while low-income children are most vulnerable to lead exposure (because they often live in old or dilapidated houses), \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">any\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> child can be exposed to lead in a variety of ways—from school water fountains to soil in playgrounds.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think that every parent should think about having their child tested, period,” Quirk said. “Just ask your pediatrician to order, then you’ll know if there’s a problem. I have a grandchild that just arrived and I’m going to ask my daughter t\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">o have her child tested.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/362364/lead-in-the-drinking-fountain-california-schools-must-now-test-for-it","authors":["byline_stateofhealth_362364"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11","stateofhealth_14","stateofhealth_2746","stateofhealth_1"],"tags":["stateofhealth_2808","stateofhealth_268","stateofhealth_2519"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_362371","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_203234":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_203234","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"203234","score":null,"sort":[1466785449000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"are-your-pipes-made-of-lead-heres-a-quick-way-to-find-out","title":"Are Your Pipes Made Of Lead? Here's A Quick Way To Find Out","publishDate":1466785449,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>Until the 1970s, lead was a common additive in gasoline and household paints. But now, scientists agree that \u003ca href=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1601013\" target=\"_blank\">no amount\u003c/a> of lead in a child's blood is \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6104a1.htm?s_cid=su6104a1_w\" target=\"_blank\">considered safe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In kids, even low levels of \u003ca href=\"http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=7&po=10\">lead exposure\u003c/a> can cause behavior and learning problems. In adults, it's associated with high blood pressure and kidney problems. And there's evidence it can \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/publications/leadandpregnancy2010.pdf\">affect\u003c/a> a developing fetus.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">What are your pipes made of? \u003ca href=\"http://apps.npr.org/find-lead-pipes-in-your-home/#intro\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to find out\u003c/a>. All you need is a key and a magnet\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Corrosive water running through lead pipes in Flint, Mich., led to a public health crisis — signaled in part by \u003ca href=\"http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2015.303003\" target=\"_blank\">a rise\u003c/a> in the amount of lead in children's blood. Conditions in Flint were particularly disastrous, but lead pipes continue to bring water to homes in much of the country. And wherever lead plumbing is in place, there is a risk that small amounts of the metal could leach into drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main source of lead in domestic drinking water is the service line. It's like a straw that carries water to the house from the main, and it \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/tips/water.htm\" target=\"_blank\">can be\u003c/a> pure lead. (If it isn't made of lead, it might be soldered together with lead or connected to brass fixtures containing lead.) And in many cities, most of the service line is considered private property – the homeowner's responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-corrosive chemicals can reduce the amount of lead leaching into the water, but they can't stop it entirely. Lead can still flake off from pipes or soldering in tiny pieces and end up in drinking water, especially when it sits in pipes for more than a few hours. Other things can shake lead free, like construction or heavy trucks driving down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll help you find out if your drinking water is at risk. And if you do find lead, we'll show you what you can do. Check \u003ca href=\"http://apps.npr.org/find-lead-pipes-in-your-home/#intro\" target=\"_blank\">our app\u003c/a> for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Are+Your+Pipes+Made+Of+Lead%3F+Here%27s+A+Quick+Way+To+Find+Out&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Find out if your pipes are made of lead -- and help NPR build a map of where lead pipes could be affecting people's drinking water.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1467050800,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":341},"headData":{"title":"Are Your Pipes Made Of Lead? 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But now, scientists agree that \u003ca href=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1601013\" target=\"_blank\">no amount\u003c/a> of lead in a child's blood is \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6104a1.htm?s_cid=su6104a1_w\" target=\"_blank\">considered safe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In kids, even low levels of \u003ca href=\"http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=7&po=10\">lead exposure\u003c/a> can cause behavior and learning problems. In adults, it's associated with high blood pressure and kidney problems. And there's evidence it can \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/publications/leadandpregnancy2010.pdf\">affect\u003c/a> a developing fetus.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">What are your pipes made of? \u003ca href=\"http://apps.npr.org/find-lead-pipes-in-your-home/#intro\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to find out\u003c/a>. All you need is a key and a magnet\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Corrosive water running through lead pipes in Flint, Mich., led to a public health crisis — signaled in part by \u003ca href=\"http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2015.303003\" target=\"_blank\">a rise\u003c/a> in the amount of lead in children's blood. Conditions in Flint were particularly disastrous, but lead pipes continue to bring water to homes in much of the country. And wherever lead plumbing is in place, there is a risk that small amounts of the metal could leach into drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main source of lead in domestic drinking water is the service line. It's like a straw that carries water to the house from the main, and it \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/tips/water.htm\" target=\"_blank\">can be\u003c/a> pure lead. (If it isn't made of lead, it might be soldered together with lead or connected to brass fixtures containing lead.) And in many cities, most of the service line is considered private property – the homeowner's responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-corrosive chemicals can reduce the amount of lead leaching into the water, but they can't stop it entirely. Lead can still flake off from pipes or soldering in tiny pieces and end up in drinking water, especially when it sits in pipes for more than a few hours. Other things can shake lead free, like construction or heavy trucks driving down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll help you find out if your drinking water is at risk. And if you do find lead, we'll show you what you can do. Check \u003ca href=\"http://apps.npr.org/find-lead-pipes-in-your-home/#intro\" target=\"_blank\">our app\u003c/a> for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Are+Your+Pipes+Made+Of+Lead%3F+Here%27s+A+Quick+Way+To+Find+Out&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/203234/are-your-pipes-made-of-lead-heres-a-quick-way-to-find-out","authors":["byline_stateofhealth_203234"],"categories":["stateofhealth_2746"],"tags":["stateofhealth_268","stateofhealth_2519","stateofhealth_461"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_203235","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_174428":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_174428","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"174428","score":null,"sort":[1461016615000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"john-oliver-recruits-sesame-street-to-sing-about-lead-poisoning-video","title":"John Oliver Recruits 'Sesame Street' to Sing About Lead Poisoning (Video)","publishDate":1461016615,"format":"video","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>John Oliver turned his righteous outrage to lead poisoning in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUizvEjR-0U\" target=\"_blank\">weekly show \u003c/a>last night. And, as he tends to do, did it with humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no safe level of lead,\" Oliver said. \"It's one of those things so dangerous that you shouldn't even let a little bit inside you, like heroin, or Jeremy Piven.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started with the Flint, Michigan water crisis and expanded from there, pointing out that there are 2.1 million homes in the U.S. where children under age six live that also have a lead dust hazard. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6213a3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">estimates that 535,000 children\u003c/a> under age six have an elevated blood lead level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lead is almost as much a scourge in young children's homes as 'Frozen' merchandise,\" he said, to laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a naturally occurring mineral, but is toxic to humans, especially children, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs379/en/\" target=\"_blank\">can lead to irreversible neurodevelopmental \u003c/a>problems, including intellectual disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver recounted the \"major public health victory\" starting in the U.S. in the 1970s when lead was removed from paint and then from gasoline. Children's blood lead levels plummeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, the federal government determined that totally removing lead from all homes, nationwide, would cost $16.6 billion every year for a decade, a very steep price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the federal government funded a lead hazard control program in homes where families where low-income families lived. While $230 million was recommended, the HUD's Lead Hazard Control Program was never funded above $176 million, Oliver said, and has been steadily declining since 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the allocation is $110 million, not even as much as Ride Along 2 \u003ca href=\"http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Ride-Along-2#tab=summary\" target=\"_blank\">has made so far\u003c/a>, a movie the \u003ca href=\"http://nypost.com/2016/01/13/the-worst-part-about-being-a-movie-critic-ride-along-2/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post said \u003c/a>was \"as funny as lead poisoning.\" (How Oliver put those facts together, I don't know, but it' s true, follow the links.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver turned to all manner of archival news clips during his history lesson, including a 20-year-old clip from \"Sesame Street\" featuring a song about protecting yourself from lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's clearly time to address the problem again,\" Oliver said, and went off to visit \"Sesame Street\" where Elmo, Rosita and even Oscar teamed up to sing a song motivating everyone to conquer the problem.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\"Lead is almost as much a scourge in young children's homes as 'Frozen' merchandise.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1461112587,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":385},"headData":{"title":"John Oliver Recruits 'Sesame Street' to Sing About Lead Poisoning (Video) | KQED","description":""Lead is almost as much a scourge in young children's homes as 'Frozen' merchandise."","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"John Oliver Recruits 'Sesame Street' to Sing About Lead Poisoning (Video)","datePublished":"2016-04-18T21:56:55.000Z","dateModified":"2016-04-20T00:36:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"174428 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=174428","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/04/18/john-oliver-recruits-sesame-street-to-sing-about-lead-poisoning-video/","disqusTitle":"John Oliver Recruits 'Sesame Street' to Sing About Lead Poisoning (Video)","videoEmbed":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUizvEjR-0U","path":"/stateofhealth/174428/john-oliver-recruits-sesame-street-to-sing-about-lead-poisoning-video","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>John Oliver turned his righteous outrage to lead poisoning in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUizvEjR-0U\" target=\"_blank\">weekly show \u003c/a>last night. And, as he tends to do, did it with humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no safe level of lead,\" Oliver said. \"It's one of those things so dangerous that you shouldn't even let a little bit inside you, like heroin, or Jeremy Piven.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started with the Flint, Michigan water crisis and expanded from there, pointing out that there are 2.1 million homes in the U.S. where children under age six live that also have a lead dust hazard. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6213a3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">estimates that 535,000 children\u003c/a> under age six have an elevated blood lead level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lead is almost as much a scourge in young children's homes as 'Frozen' merchandise,\" he said, to laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a naturally occurring mineral, but is toxic to humans, especially children, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs379/en/\" target=\"_blank\">can lead to irreversible neurodevelopmental \u003c/a>problems, including intellectual disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver recounted the \"major public health victory\" starting in the U.S. in the 1970s when lead was removed from paint and then from gasoline. Children's blood lead levels plummeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, the federal government determined that totally removing lead from all homes, nationwide, would cost $16.6 billion every year for a decade, a very steep price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the federal government funded a lead hazard control program in homes where families where low-income families lived. While $230 million was recommended, the HUD's Lead Hazard Control Program was never funded above $176 million, Oliver said, and has been steadily declining since 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the allocation is $110 million, not even as much as Ride Along 2 \u003ca href=\"http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Ride-Along-2#tab=summary\" target=\"_blank\">has made so far\u003c/a>, a movie the \u003ca href=\"http://nypost.com/2016/01/13/the-worst-part-about-being-a-movie-critic-ride-along-2/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post said \u003c/a>was \"as funny as lead poisoning.\" (How Oliver put those facts together, I don't know, but it' s true, follow the links.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver turned to all manner of archival news clips during his history lesson, including a 20-year-old clip from \"Sesame Street\" featuring a song about protecting yourself from lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's clearly time to address the problem again,\" Oliver said, and went off to visit \"Sesame Street\" where Elmo, Rosita and even Oscar teamed up to sing a song motivating everyone to conquer the problem.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/174428/john-oliver-recruits-sesame-street-to-sing-about-lead-poisoning-video","authors":["240"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11"],"tags":["stateofhealth_2598","stateofhealth_20","stateofhealth_268","stateofhealth_461"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_174444","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_18309":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_18309","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"18309","score":null,"sort":[1395775200000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"advocates-skeptical-of-los-angeles-exide-battery-recycling-plants-clean-up-proposal","title":"Neighbors Skeptical of L.A. Battery Recycling Plant's Clean Up Proposal","publishDate":1395775200,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/ExideLead2-e1395774448786.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-18311\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/ExideLead2-640x428.jpg\" alt=\"Doelores Mejia attended a recent public meeting in Boyle Heights where state Department of Toxic Substances Control officials described neighborhood lead contamination. Mejia says state officials should have closed the plant long ago. (Chris Richard)\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doelores Mejia attended a recent public meeting in Boyle Heights where state officials described neighborhood lead contamination. Mejia says regulators should have closed the plant long ago. (Chris Richard)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Chris Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operators of a battery recycling plant suspected of showering its neighbors just east of downtown Los Angeles with lead dust for decades have submitted new \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/Add-to-the-11-15-13-WP-for-Off-site-Soil-Sampling.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">soil testing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/Interim-Measures-Work-Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">remediation\u003c/a> plans. According to the documents, the area that incrementally increases the area to be surveyed will be incrementally increased and homes inhabited by young children and pregnant women will be specially vacuumed or have lead dust sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The Exide plant has been cited repeatedly for leaking lead and arsenic into nearby residential neighborhoods.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Exide Technologies also may remove an undisclosed amount of soil from two yards already identified as hazardous to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the company has received regulatory approval for more than $5 million in improvements to pollution-control measures at its plant in Vernon. That’s on top of $15 million the company has committed to anti-pollution measures since 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate press releases regarding the ground contamination and the air-quality protection measures, senior Exide director E.N. “Bud” DeSart is quoted as saying the company is resolved to protect the public health.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some community groups were unconvinced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying to put lipstick on this pig,” responded Monseigneur John Moretta. He's pastor of Resurrection Catholic Church in Boyle Heights, a blue-collar, largely Latino community next to Vernon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moretta added that he won’t be satisfied until the plant is closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soil testing and remediation plan went to the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, which regulates ground contamination. The $5 million anti-pollution plan falls under the authority of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, charged with protecting air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liza Tucker of the public interest group Consumer Watchdog questioned this division of authority over what she described as a persistent and unrepentant polluter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What needs to happen is to regulate in a completely different way, to give companies like that a master permit, coordinated between the air district and the DTSC,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Regulators) need to get together and say, ‘OK, what are we concerned about here and what do we do to make sure it doesn’t happen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Tucker said, the company has played different regulatory agencies against each other, avoiding effective controls on its behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Long History of Violations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battery recycling plant has operated since December 1981 on\u003ca href=\"http://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report.asp?global_id=80001733\" target=\"_blank\"> an “interim permit.”\u003c/a> Since then, it has never satisfied regulators that it meets the state’s rules for the safe operation of such toxic sites. Exide \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/prdas/AB2588/Exide/Exide.html\" target=\"_blank\">has been cited repeatedly for letting lead and arsenic leak\u003c/a> into residential neighborhoods less than two miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a neurotoxin that can cause learning disabilities and behavioral problems in children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Quality Management District disclosed last spring that Exide’s arsenic emissions posed a cancer risk to more than 100,000 people living nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, the Department of Toxic Substances Control announced that tests of homes and schools near the plant detected lead levels exceeding 40 milligrams of lead per kilogram of soil. That’s about 40 parts per million, the level at which state guidelines recommend additional testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/03/11/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-soil-near-l-a-battery-recycling-plant/\" target=\"_blank\">warned\u003c/a> residents of Boyle Heights and Maywood, just east of downtown Los Angeles, to keep children away from areas of bare soil and to wash their hands thoroughly, especially when they come inside. Residents should put door mats inside and outside entrances to their homes, only grow produce in raised planter boxes and thoroughly wash any home-gown produce before eating it, the agency warned. It ordered additional testing and strategies to protect residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expansion of Lead Testing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first soil tests took samples from 39 homes and two schools within two miles of the plant. Exide’s new plan, submitted Friday, expands soil testing by 1.9 square miles and includes 59 additional properties. At homes where lead has already been found in concentrations exceeding 40 parts per million, and that are inhabited by pregnant women or young children, Exide may cover bare soil or vacuum the ground, according to the most recent proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first round of testing found lead concentrations exceeding the state Department of Public Health’s defined hazard level for bare soils where children play of 400 milligram per kilogram of soil, or approximately 400 parts per million. At those properties, the company plans to remove soil. The plan didn’t specify how much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Exide’s plan to curb air pollution, Sam Atwood, a spokesman for the South Coast Air Quality Management District, noted that the company continued to receive citations for violating air quality rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/prdas/AB2588/Exide/Exide.html\" target=\"_blank\">Those alleged violations\u003c/a> include one this month for failing to report emissions promptly and two in January for temporarily removing part of the roof while work was underway on battery-crushing equipment. That may have released toxic fumes, but Exide failed to notify authorities or warn the public, air district documents claim. Exide also received a citation in January for releasing too much lead into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further, the company has sued to block an air district order that its blast furnaces achieve “negative pressure” to prevent toxic emissions from escaping, Atwood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"QrHpQphj8NXCtvfC1HOdhzug1nUBHiHv\"]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1395792423,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":915},"headData":{"title":"Neighbors Skeptical of L.A. Battery Recycling Plant's Clean Up Proposal | KQED","description":"By Chris Richard Operators of a battery recycling plant suspected of showering its neighbors just east of downtown Los Angeles with lead dust for decades have submitted new soil testing and remediation plans. According to the documents, the area that incrementally increases the area to be surveyed will be incrementally increased and homes inhabited by","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Neighbors Skeptical of L.A. Battery Recycling Plant's Clean Up Proposal","datePublished":"2014-03-25T19:20:00.000Z","dateModified":"2014-03-26T00:07:03.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"18309 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=18309","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/03/25/advocates-skeptical-of-los-angeles-exide-battery-recycling-plants-clean-up-proposal/","disqusTitle":"Neighbors Skeptical of L.A. Battery Recycling Plant's Clean Up Proposal","path":"/stateofhealth/18309/advocates-skeptical-of-los-angeles-exide-battery-recycling-plants-clean-up-proposal","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/ExideLead2-e1395774448786.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-18311\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/ExideLead2-640x428.jpg\" alt=\"Doelores Mejia attended a recent public meeting in Boyle Heights where state Department of Toxic Substances Control officials described neighborhood lead contamination. Mejia says state officials should have closed the plant long ago. (Chris Richard)\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doelores Mejia attended a recent public meeting in Boyle Heights where state officials described neighborhood lead contamination. Mejia says regulators should have closed the plant long ago. (Chris Richard)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Chris Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operators of a battery recycling plant suspected of showering its neighbors just east of downtown Los Angeles with lead dust for decades have submitted new \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/Add-to-the-11-15-13-WP-for-Off-site-Soil-Sampling.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">soil testing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/Interim-Measures-Work-Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">remediation\u003c/a> plans. According to the documents, the area that incrementally increases the area to be surveyed will be incrementally increased and homes inhabited by young children and pregnant women will be specially vacuumed or have lead dust sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The Exide plant has been cited repeatedly for leaking lead and arsenic into nearby residential neighborhoods.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Exide Technologies also may remove an undisclosed amount of soil from two yards already identified as hazardous to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the company has received regulatory approval for more than $5 million in improvements to pollution-control measures at its plant in Vernon. That’s on top of $15 million the company has committed to anti-pollution measures since 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate press releases regarding the ground contamination and the air-quality protection measures, senior Exide director E.N. “Bud” DeSart is quoted as saying the company is resolved to protect the public health.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some community groups were unconvinced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying to put lipstick on this pig,” responded Monseigneur John Moretta. He's pastor of Resurrection Catholic Church in Boyle Heights, a blue-collar, largely Latino community next to Vernon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moretta added that he won’t be satisfied until the plant is closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soil testing and remediation plan went to the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, which regulates ground contamination. The $5 million anti-pollution plan falls under the authority of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, charged with protecting air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liza Tucker of the public interest group Consumer Watchdog questioned this division of authority over what she described as a persistent and unrepentant polluter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What needs to happen is to regulate in a completely different way, to give companies like that a master permit, coordinated between the air district and the DTSC,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Regulators) need to get together and say, ‘OK, what are we concerned about here and what do we do to make sure it doesn’t happen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Tucker said, the company has played different regulatory agencies against each other, avoiding effective controls on its behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Long History of Violations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battery recycling plant has operated since December 1981 on\u003ca href=\"http://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report.asp?global_id=80001733\" target=\"_blank\"> an “interim permit.”\u003c/a> Since then, it has never satisfied regulators that it meets the state’s rules for the safe operation of such toxic sites. Exide \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/prdas/AB2588/Exide/Exide.html\" target=\"_blank\">has been cited repeatedly for letting lead and arsenic leak\u003c/a> into residential neighborhoods less than two miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a neurotoxin that can cause learning disabilities and behavioral problems in children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Quality Management District disclosed last spring that Exide’s arsenic emissions posed a cancer risk to more than 100,000 people living nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, the Department of Toxic Substances Control announced that tests of homes and schools near the plant detected lead levels exceeding 40 milligrams of lead per kilogram of soil. That’s about 40 parts per million, the level at which state guidelines recommend additional testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/03/11/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-soil-near-l-a-battery-recycling-plant/\" target=\"_blank\">warned\u003c/a> residents of Boyle Heights and Maywood, just east of downtown Los Angeles, to keep children away from areas of bare soil and to wash their hands thoroughly, especially when they come inside. Residents should put door mats inside and outside entrances to their homes, only grow produce in raised planter boxes and thoroughly wash any home-gown produce before eating it, the agency warned. It ordered additional testing and strategies to protect residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expansion of Lead Testing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first soil tests took samples from 39 homes and two schools within two miles of the plant. Exide’s new plan, submitted Friday, expands soil testing by 1.9 square miles and includes 59 additional properties. At homes where lead has already been found in concentrations exceeding 40 parts per million, and that are inhabited by pregnant women or young children, Exide may cover bare soil or vacuum the ground, according to the most recent proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first round of testing found lead concentrations exceeding the state Department of Public Health’s defined hazard level for bare soils where children play of 400 milligram per kilogram of soil, or approximately 400 parts per million. At those properties, the company plans to remove soil. The plan didn’t specify how much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Exide’s plan to curb air pollution, Sam Atwood, a spokesman for the South Coast Air Quality Management District, noted that the company continued to receive citations for violating air quality rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/prdas/AB2588/Exide/Exide.html\" target=\"_blank\">Those alleged violations\u003c/a> include one this month for failing to report emissions promptly and two in January for temporarily removing part of the roof while work was underway on battery-crushing equipment. That may have released toxic fumes, but Exide failed to notify authorities or warn the public, air district documents claim. Exide also received a citation in January for releasing too much lead into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further, the company has sued to block an air district order that its blast furnaces achieve “negative pressure” to prevent toxic emissions from escaping, Atwood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"QrHpQphj8NXCtvfC1HOdhzug1nUBHiHv\"]\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/18309/advocates-skeptical-of-los-angeles-exide-battery-recycling-plants-clean-up-proposal","authors":["8344"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11"],"tags":["stateofhealth_96","stateofhealth_268"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_18311","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_18232":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_18232","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"18232","score":null,"sort":[1395389084000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"frustrated-neighbors-want-faster-action-over-exide-battery-recycling-plant","title":"Frustrated Neighbors Want Faster Action Over L.A. Battery Recycling Plant","publishDate":1395389084,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/ExideLead1-e1395352488289.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-18237\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/ExideLead1-640x428.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto Cabrales of Communities for a Better Environment regularly includes the Exide Technologies plant in Vernon in the activist group’s “toxic tour” of pollution sites to the east and south of Los Angeles. (Chris Richard)\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Cabrales of Communities for a Better Environment regularly includes the Exide Technologies plant in Vernon in the activist group’s “toxic tour” of pollution sites to the east and south of Los Angeles. (Chris Richard)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Chris Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most 6-year-olds, Claudia Gomez’s son, Stanley, loves to play in the dirt, and he doesn’t much like washing his hands. But these days more than ever, Gomez is a stickler for cleanliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday evening, she spotted the grime as Stanley raced past her on his way to play outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Exide plant may have showered its neighbors with lead dust for decades. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I already washed my hands!” Stanley complained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest didn’t work. Gomez hauled Stanley to the sink and started scrubbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez is being so careful because the state Department of Toxic Substances Control has warned parents not to let their children play in the dirt. The department is urging frequent hand-washing as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/Community_Flier_031014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">precaution against lead poisoning\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in Gomez’s Boyle Heights neighborhood and in Maywood, just east of downtown Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/03/11/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-soil-near-l-a-battery-recycling-plant/\" target=\"_blank\">got new warnings\u003c/a> earlier this month that a battery recycling plant may have contaminated their houses and yards with lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators believe the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant may have showered its neighbors with lead dust for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead poisoning can attack every organ in the body. In children, it can cause brain damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide crushes and melts about 25,000 car batteries a day. The company \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/prdas/AB2588/Exide/Exide.html\" target=\"_blank\">has been cited repeatedly for letting lead and arsenic leak\u003c/a> into residential neighborhoods less than 2 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Department of Toxic Substances Control ordered soil testing at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/04/neighbors-skeptical-battery-recycler-to-test-soil-for-dangerous-metals-exide-arsenic-los-angeles/\" target=\"_blank\">39 houses and two schools\u003c/a> near the Exide plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials announced recently that all \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/2014_02_18_Exide_Offsite_Soil_Sampling_Rpt.pdf\">the samples exceeded 80 parts per million\u003c/a>, the level at which the state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment recommends additional evaluation. The samples at one home topped 580 parts per million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Johnson, deputy director at the Department of Toxic Substances Control, says eventually, Exide might be ordered to cover the contaminated areas with mulch or sod, or possibly haul away some dirt. But first, Johnson says regulators need to map the poison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know (what the strategy will be) yet, because we don’t know how extensive these concentrations are. So, we don’t feel that it’s an emergency, but it does concern us significantly and that’s why we have them moving quickly,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide has until today to come up with that broader testing plan -- and a strategy to protect people known to have been exposed to lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Neighbors Say State Action is Too Little, Too Late\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some neighborhood residents are losing faith in a regulatory response they feel is too little, too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a neighborhood playground, Alejandro Ramirez wondered how he’s supposed to keep his nephew safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell him, 'Don’t grab this, don’t grab that,' because he’s a little boy, and what he wants is to experiment and to play in the dirt, or in games,” Ramirez said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liza Tucker of the nonprofit activist group Consumer Watchdog called the request for additional testing “totally passing the buck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m concerned about is chronic exposure to lead. Those kids breathe the air. Those adults breathe the air. Lead is a neurotoxin. This has been going on now for years,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/140727874&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, Exide says it now meets clean air standards. Plant Manager John Hogarth called the company “part of the green economy.” Exide already helps the environment by recycling some 8 million car batteries a year, Hogarth said, adding that otherwise the batteries would end up in landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I can say to the community is that we are working very closely with the agencies that regulate us for health and environmental purposes, and we are committed to meet those requirements, whatever they are,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Exide supports its community by providing more than 100 union jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first priority is their health and hygiene and also the health and, you know, being a good steward of the environment for the communities around us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of Violations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State records tell a different story. The plant has operated under an\u003ca href=\"http://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report.asp?global_id=80001733\" target=\"_blank\"> interim permit since December 1981\u003c/a>. In all that time, Exide hasn’t satisfied regulators that it has fully met California’s rules for the safe operation of such toxic sites. In fact, regulators twice issued deficiency notices that could have allowed the state to close the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the state allowed it to stay open\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Johnson, of the Department of Toxic Substances Control, says it wasn’t always clear how lead smelters like Exide fit into the regulatory structure. Also, the plant filed several different permit applications. And time dragged on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not have that patience any longer,\" Johnson said. \"We are directing Exide to do the work that should have been done years ago and to do it quickly, and we are moving forward down that path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Johnson held a community meeting at a church about 2 miles from Exide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Los Angeles resident Rafael Yanez, an environmental engineer, pointed out that so far, state regulators have sampled the middle of people’s yards, away from places where rain might concentrate lead, like under rain spouts. State officials are trying to get the average concentrations at first, not the peaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yanez said many families in the neighborhood plant kitchen gardens near downspouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since this is a Latin community, you would see chiles, things like yerba buena or other medicinal herbs that they’ll boil as teas to give to their children that are colicky,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yanez thinks the lead concentrations in those gardens could be up to six times higher. He urged state regulators to require testing in other places that might have accumulated lead over the years, such as storm drains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said that regulators put Exide on a tight schedule to come up with the protection and testing plan and he promised rapid action. Meanwhile, the county Department of Public Health will start offering free blood tests for people who want to be screened for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberto Cabrales of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbecal.org/\">Communities for a Better Environment\u003c/a> hopes regulators do crack down. He regularly swings by Exide on the organization’s “toxic tour” of pollution hot spots to the east and south of Los Angeles. “But it’s not the only one,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week Los Angeles County supervisors voted to set up a task force to identify chronic polluters like Exide and get them cleaned up or closed\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia Gomez, the mom who can’t stop scrubbing her son’s hands, is also growing weary of a struggle that seems to bring so little result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure, we should fight it, and they need to close that thing down and put it somewhere else. But everybody’s sick and stuff like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez says her 9-year-old daughter has frequent headaches, and she wonders whether that could be a symptom of lead poisoning. Her 7-month old baby is sickly, too. It’s all getting to be too much, and she says she’s thinking of moving away before things get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"uSdVV7R0as0zppLsQ99uTDQ8d9LewnHl\"]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"State regulators now believe Exide's plant may have showered its neighbors with lead dust for decades.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1395792396,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://w.soundcloud.com/player/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":1286},"headData":{"title":"Frustrated Neighbors Want Faster Action Over L.A. 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Battery Recycling Plant","path":"/stateofhealth/18232/frustrated-neighbors-want-faster-action-over-exide-battery-recycling-plant","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/ExideLead1-e1395352488289.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-18237\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/ExideLead1-640x428.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto Cabrales of Communities for a Better Environment regularly includes the Exide Technologies plant in Vernon in the activist group’s “toxic tour” of pollution sites to the east and south of Los Angeles. (Chris Richard)\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Cabrales of Communities for a Better Environment regularly includes the Exide Technologies plant in Vernon in the activist group’s “toxic tour” of pollution sites to the east and south of Los Angeles. (Chris Richard)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Chris Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most 6-year-olds, Claudia Gomez’s son, Stanley, loves to play in the dirt, and he doesn’t much like washing his hands. But these days more than ever, Gomez is a stickler for cleanliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday evening, she spotted the grime as Stanley raced past her on his way to play outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Exide plant may have showered its neighbors with lead dust for decades. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I already washed my hands!” Stanley complained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest didn’t work. Gomez hauled Stanley to the sink and started scrubbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez is being so careful because the state Department of Toxic Substances Control has warned parents not to let their children play in the dirt. The department is urging frequent hand-washing as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/Community_Flier_031014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">precaution against lead poisoning\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in Gomez’s Boyle Heights neighborhood and in Maywood, just east of downtown Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/03/11/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-soil-near-l-a-battery-recycling-plant/\" target=\"_blank\">got new warnings\u003c/a> earlier this month that a battery recycling plant may have contaminated their houses and yards with lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators believe the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant may have showered its neighbors with lead dust for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead poisoning can attack every organ in the body. In children, it can cause brain damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide crushes and melts about 25,000 car batteries a day. The company \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/prdas/AB2588/Exide/Exide.html\" target=\"_blank\">has been cited repeatedly for letting lead and arsenic leak\u003c/a> into residential neighborhoods less than 2 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Department of Toxic Substances Control ordered soil testing at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/04/neighbors-skeptical-battery-recycler-to-test-soil-for-dangerous-metals-exide-arsenic-los-angeles/\" target=\"_blank\">39 houses and two schools\u003c/a> near the Exide plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials announced recently that all \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/2014_02_18_Exide_Offsite_Soil_Sampling_Rpt.pdf\">the samples exceeded 80 parts per million\u003c/a>, the level at which the state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment recommends additional evaluation. The samples at one home topped 580 parts per million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Johnson, deputy director at the Department of Toxic Substances Control, says eventually, Exide might be ordered to cover the contaminated areas with mulch or sod, or possibly haul away some dirt. But first, Johnson says regulators need to map the poison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know (what the strategy will be) yet, because we don’t know how extensive these concentrations are. So, we don’t feel that it’s an emergency, but it does concern us significantly and that’s why we have them moving quickly,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide has until today to come up with that broader testing plan -- and a strategy to protect people known to have been exposed to lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Neighbors Say State Action is Too Little, Too Late\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some neighborhood residents are losing faith in a regulatory response they feel is too little, too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a neighborhood playground, Alejandro Ramirez wondered how he’s supposed to keep his nephew safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell him, 'Don’t grab this, don’t grab that,' because he’s a little boy, and what he wants is to experiment and to play in the dirt, or in games,” Ramirez said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liza Tucker of the nonprofit activist group Consumer Watchdog called the request for additional testing “totally passing the buck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m concerned about is chronic exposure to lead. Those kids breathe the air. Those adults breathe the air. Lead is a neurotoxin. This has been going on now for years,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/140727874&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, Exide says it now meets clean air standards. Plant Manager John Hogarth called the company “part of the green economy.” Exide already helps the environment by recycling some 8 million car batteries a year, Hogarth said, adding that otherwise the batteries would end up in landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I can say to the community is that we are working very closely with the agencies that regulate us for health and environmental purposes, and we are committed to meet those requirements, whatever they are,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Exide supports its community by providing more than 100 union jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first priority is their health and hygiene and also the health and, you know, being a good steward of the environment for the communities around us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of Violations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State records tell a different story. The plant has operated under an\u003ca href=\"http://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report.asp?global_id=80001733\" target=\"_blank\"> interim permit since December 1981\u003c/a>. In all that time, Exide hasn’t satisfied regulators that it has fully met California’s rules for the safe operation of such toxic sites. In fact, regulators twice issued deficiency notices that could have allowed the state to close the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the state allowed it to stay open\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Johnson, of the Department of Toxic Substances Control, says it wasn’t always clear how lead smelters like Exide fit into the regulatory structure. Also, the plant filed several different permit applications. And time dragged on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not have that patience any longer,\" Johnson said. \"We are directing Exide to do the work that should have been done years ago and to do it quickly, and we are moving forward down that path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Johnson held a community meeting at a church about 2 miles from Exide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Los Angeles resident Rafael Yanez, an environmental engineer, pointed out that so far, state regulators have sampled the middle of people’s yards, away from places where rain might concentrate lead, like under rain spouts. State officials are trying to get the average concentrations at first, not the peaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yanez said many families in the neighborhood plant kitchen gardens near downspouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since this is a Latin community, you would see chiles, things like yerba buena or other medicinal herbs that they’ll boil as teas to give to their children that are colicky,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yanez thinks the lead concentrations in those gardens could be up to six times higher. He urged state regulators to require testing in other places that might have accumulated lead over the years, such as storm drains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said that regulators put Exide on a tight schedule to come up with the protection and testing plan and he promised rapid action. Meanwhile, the county Department of Public Health will start offering free blood tests for people who want to be screened for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberto Cabrales of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbecal.org/\">Communities for a Better Environment\u003c/a> hopes regulators do crack down. He regularly swings by Exide on the organization’s “toxic tour” of pollution hot spots to the east and south of Los Angeles. “But it’s not the only one,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week Los Angeles County supervisors voted to set up a task force to identify chronic polluters like Exide and get them cleaned up or closed\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia Gomez, the mom who can’t stop scrubbing her son’s hands, is also growing weary of a struggle that seems to bring so little result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure, we should fight it, and they need to close that thing down and put it somewhere else. But everybody’s sick and stuff like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez says her 9-year-old daughter has frequent headaches, and she wonders whether that could be a symptom of lead poisoning. Her 7-month old baby is sickly, too. It’s all getting to be too much, and she says she’s thinking of moving away before things get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"uSdVV7R0as0zppLsQ99uTDQ8d9LewnHl\"]\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/18232/frustrated-neighbors-want-faster-action-over-exide-battery-recycling-plant","authors":["8344"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11"],"tags":["stateofhealth_96","stateofhealth_268"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_18237","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_18055":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_18055","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"18055","score":null,"sort":[1394557256000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"high-levels-of-lead-found-in-soil-near-l-a-battery-recycling-plant","title":"High Levels of Lead Found in Soil Near L.A. Battery Recycling Plant","publishDate":1394557256,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/09/Exide3-e1378272248654.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-14724\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/09/Exide3-640x478.jpg\" alt=\"The Exide Technologies plant in Vernon. (Photo/Chris Richard)\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Exide Technologies plant in Vernon. (Photo/Chris Richard)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Chris Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tests of homes and schools near a battery recycling plant east of Los Angeles have detected elevated lead levels, prompting state officials Monday to caution the public against exposure and to order expanded testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both neighborhoods surveyed exceeded the state’s “health screening level” for lead of 80 parts per million. One home topped 580 parts per million, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/2014_02_18_Exide_Offsite_Soil_Sampling_Rpt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">according to a testing report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Residents are cautioned to keep children away from bare soil and to wash hands thoroughly.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Toxic Substances Control has given Exide Technologies until March 21 to develop a plan for additional testing of the 39 homes and two schools \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/2014_03_10_DTSC_Exide_Soil_Sampling_Map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">included in the original study\u003c/a>, as well as a wider area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This announcement follows testing last month in Boyle Heights and Maywood, just east of downtown Los Angeles. It marks the DTSC’s first discovery of widespread ground contamination in residential areas near Exide’s plant in Vernon.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to new testing requirements, the DTSC also ordered Exide to develop plans to address lead concentrations in residential yards where it exceeds acceptable levels. Priority will be given to homes occupied by pregnant women or children, according to an agency advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DTSC \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/Community_Flier_031014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">cautioned\u003c/a> people living in the area to keep children away from areas of bare soil and to wash their hands thoroughly, especially when they come inside. Residents should put door mats inside and outside entrances to their homes, only grow produce in raised planter boxes and thoroughly wash any home-gown produce before eating it, the agency warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exposure to lead can cause significant and permanent \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/ACCLPP/blood_lead_levels.htm\" target=\"_blank\">developmental problems in children\u003c/a> and can harm adults as well, according to the Centers for Disease Control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials plan a community meeting in Boyle Heights to discuss the testing on March 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plant has a long history of air pollution write-ups, including repeated allegations that it allowed lead dust to contaminate the surrounding neighborhood, regulators say. Still, the DTSC allowed the factory, which can melt tens of thousands of batteries a day, to operate on “interim status” for some 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, the DTSC ordered Exide to suspend operations. Regulators said arsenic emissions from the plant endangered as many as 110,000 people living nearby. The South Coast Air Quality Management District estimated cancer risk from the airborne arsenic at up to 15 times state standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the AQMD sued, seeking up to $40 million in penalties stemming from alleged illegal emissions of lead and arsenic at the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preliminary test results from the February samples did not find elevated arsenic concentrations in the soil, DTSC officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide issued a statement Wednesday morning as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Exide is studying the department’s response and will work cooperatively to conduct the requested additional sampling and the interim clean up measures. The health and safety of the community, as well as its workforce, are important to Exide and the company is committed to investing in the Vernon facility to further reduce emissions and protect public health.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"bPn8qfOU9EGGcyHTrunpeJe8koa7H093\"]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Some areas exceeded the 'health screening level' of 80 parts per million. One home was above 580 ppm.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1394575445,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":528},"headData":{"title":"High Levels of Lead Found in Soil Near L.A. Battery Recycling Plant | KQED","description":"Some areas exceeded the 'health screening level' of 80 parts per million. One home was above 580 ppm.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"High Levels of Lead Found in Soil Near L.A. Battery Recycling Plant","datePublished":"2014-03-11T17:00:56.000Z","dateModified":"2014-03-11T22:04:05.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"18055 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=18055","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/03/11/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-soil-near-l-a-battery-recycling-plant/","disqusTitle":"High Levels of Lead Found in Soil Near L.A. Battery Recycling Plant","path":"/stateofhealth/18055/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-soil-near-l-a-battery-recycling-plant","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/09/Exide3-e1378272248654.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-14724\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/09/Exide3-640x478.jpg\" alt=\"The Exide Technologies plant in Vernon. (Photo/Chris Richard)\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Exide Technologies plant in Vernon. (Photo/Chris Richard)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Chris Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tests of homes and schools near a battery recycling plant east of Los Angeles have detected elevated lead levels, prompting state officials Monday to caution the public against exposure and to order expanded testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both neighborhoods surveyed exceeded the state’s “health screening level” for lead of 80 parts per million. One home topped 580 parts per million, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/2014_02_18_Exide_Offsite_Soil_Sampling_Rpt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">according to a testing report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Residents are cautioned to keep children away from bare soil and to wash hands thoroughly.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Toxic Substances Control has given Exide Technologies until March 21 to develop a plan for additional testing of the 39 homes and two schools \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/2014_03_10_DTSC_Exide_Soil_Sampling_Map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">included in the original study\u003c/a>, as well as a wider area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This announcement follows testing last month in Boyle Heights and Maywood, just east of downtown Los Angeles. It marks the DTSC’s first discovery of widespread ground contamination in residential areas near Exide’s plant in Vernon.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to new testing requirements, the DTSC also ordered Exide to develop plans to address lead concentrations in residential yards where it exceeds acceptable levels. Priority will be given to homes occupied by pregnant women or children, according to an agency advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DTSC \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/Community_Flier_031014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">cautioned\u003c/a> people living in the area to keep children away from areas of bare soil and to wash their hands thoroughly, especially when they come inside. Residents should put door mats inside and outside entrances to their homes, only grow produce in raised planter boxes and thoroughly wash any home-gown produce before eating it, the agency warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exposure to lead can cause significant and permanent \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/ACCLPP/blood_lead_levels.htm\" target=\"_blank\">developmental problems in children\u003c/a> and can harm adults as well, according to the Centers for Disease Control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials plan a community meeting in Boyle Heights to discuss the testing on March 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plant has a long history of air pollution write-ups, including repeated allegations that it allowed lead dust to contaminate the surrounding neighborhood, regulators say. Still, the DTSC allowed the factory, which can melt tens of thousands of batteries a day, to operate on “interim status” for some 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, the DTSC ordered Exide to suspend operations. Regulators said arsenic emissions from the plant endangered as many as 110,000 people living nearby. The South Coast Air Quality Management District estimated cancer risk from the airborne arsenic at up to 15 times state standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the AQMD sued, seeking up to $40 million in penalties stemming from alleged illegal emissions of lead and arsenic at the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preliminary test results from the February samples did not find elevated arsenic concentrations in the soil, DTSC officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide issued a statement Wednesday morning as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Exide is studying the department’s response and will work cooperatively to conduct the requested additional sampling and the interim clean up measures. The health and safety of the community, as well as its workforce, are important to Exide and the company is committed to investing in the Vernon facility to further reduce emissions and protect public health.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"bPn8qfOU9EGGcyHTrunpeJe8koa7H093\"]\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/18055/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-soil-near-l-a-battery-recycling-plant","authors":["8344"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11"],"tags":["stateofhealth_96","stateofhealth_268"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_14724","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_15671":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_15671","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"15671","score":null,"sort":[1381931713000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lead-based-paint-poisoning-still-a-hazard-for-californias-most-vulnerable-children-lawsuit","title":"Lead-Based Paint Still a Hazard for California's Most Vulnerable Children","publishDate":1381931713,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15716\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/antonioncropped.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-15716\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/10/antonioncropped-640x395.png\" alt=\"hree year old Antonio suffered hearing loss after eating lead-based paint chips as a toddler. (Lauren M. Whaley/CHCF Center for Health Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three year old Antonio suffered hearing loss after eating lead-based paint chips as a toddler. (Lauren M. Whaley/CHCF Center for Health Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Kelley Weiss\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org\" target=\"_blank\">CHCF Center for Health Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children’s advocates are hoping for a big Christmas present this year – a billion dollars to remove toxic lead paint from homes. A Santa Clara Superior Court judge has until the end of the year to decide if paint companies should pay to get rid of lead paint still in thousands of older homes around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California’s lead poisoning cases have declined, especially over the last two decades, children's advocates say the most vulnerable children are still at risk because they don’t have enough money to reach the finish line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two counties are trying to fix the problem with the resources they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County is one of the ten counties and cities involved in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago Nathaniel Stone was living in an East Oakland apartment with one-year-old Antonio. Stone is Antonio's legal guardian and is in the process of adopting him. The home they lived in had a lot of peeling paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day when Stone was cooking in the kitchen from across the room he saw that Antonio seemed to be eating something. Stone checked it out and found Antonio with paint chips in his mouth.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone had no idea the peeling paint was lead-based -- or that it's not so surprising that small children like to eat it. Lead paint tastes sweet. Soon, Stone noticed a change in Antonio's behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From there he was kind of a little sick and restless, sleeping bad at night and kind of crying and a mood that normally wasn’t him,” Stone says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Stone took Antonio to the doctor and discovered that Antonio had a high level of lead in his blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From that he ended up with loss of hearing in his ear,” Stone says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately Alameda County stepped in to help Stone find a new place to live. Today they live in an apartment that is free of lead paint. But because of that early exposure to lead, Antonio, now three-years-old, has major hearing loss. He goes to a center for children with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone says Antonio has a speech therapist, because his words are \"slow and twisted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes a variety of county experts to handle a case like Antonio’s. This is easier for Alameda County because as part of its lead\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>poisoning prevention\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>program, the public health, environmental health and housing departments are integrated. The county program also has more resources than most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property owners of houses built before 1978 pay the county a $10 annual fee to respond to lead hazards. It’s one of the only assessments of its kind in California. With stable funding, the County tries to be more proactive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Belanger is a state certified lead project designer with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.achhd.org\">Alameda County Healthy Homes Department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get a better understanding of the issues he drove me around West Oakland – an area with industrial factories, art studios and he says, “a lot of older homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, 90 percent of houses have lead paint. Belanger says it’s not cheap to remove with an average cost of $5,000 per unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the lead can’t be removed he’ll help move the family out, as happened in Antonio’s case. But whatever the approach, Belanger says the key is getting the children away from the toxic lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many families in California that level of support isn't available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County is also a plaintiff in the lead paint trial. But unlike in Alameda, in LA County, it can take six months to resolve a case like Antonio’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Public Health Department, points to three main reasons for this lag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first: the sheer size of the county and the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have roughly one and a half million residences that have lead paint,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, unlike Alameda County, LA’s Public Health and Housing Departments are not integrated. Fielding says that lack of integration can delay action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, the third reason: money. LA County doesn’t have a dedicated property tax like Alameda County. It relies mainly on state funding and that amount has varied over the years. In addition, the county took a hit last year when \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/16/lead-poisoning-prevention-cuts/2817329/\">Congress cut almost all of its funding for the Centers for Disease Control’s lead program\u003c/a>. That money goes out to county health departments for outreach and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielding says this resulted in LA County’s lead program losing about $600,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time the CDC reported that even \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/ACCLPP/blood_lead_levels.htm\">lower levels of lead can cause permanent brain damage\u003c/a> than had previously been known. Yet Fielding says there’s less and less funding to protect children from lead exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is really catastrophic to see literally tens of thousands of kids having a level of poisoning that’s going to affect their ability to succeed in high school or to succeed in college,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Learn More:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube //player.vimeo.com/video/74674216]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/74674216\">Lead poisoning in California's kids: Antonio's story\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/user5638243\">CAhealthReport\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com\">Vimeo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1382075764,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":920},"headData":{"title":"Lead-Based Paint Still a Hazard for California's Most Vulnerable Children | KQED","description":"By Kelley Weiss, CHCF Center for Health Reporting Children’s advocates are hoping for a big Christmas present this year – a billion dollars to remove toxic lead paint from homes. 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(Lauren M. Whaley/CHCF Center for Health Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three year old Antonio suffered hearing loss after eating lead-based paint chips as a toddler. (Lauren M. Whaley/CHCF Center for Health Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Kelley Weiss\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org\" target=\"_blank\">CHCF Center for Health Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children’s advocates are hoping for a big Christmas present this year – a billion dollars to remove toxic lead paint from homes. A Santa Clara Superior Court judge has until the end of the year to decide if paint companies should pay to get rid of lead paint still in thousands of older homes around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California’s lead poisoning cases have declined, especially over the last two decades, children's advocates say the most vulnerable children are still at risk because they don’t have enough money to reach the finish line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two counties are trying to fix the problem with the resources they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County is one of the ten counties and cities involved in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago Nathaniel Stone was living in an East Oakland apartment with one-year-old Antonio. Stone is Antonio's legal guardian and is in the process of adopting him. The home they lived in had a lot of peeling paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day when Stone was cooking in the kitchen from across the room he saw that Antonio seemed to be eating something. Stone checked it out and found Antonio with paint chips in his mouth.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone had no idea the peeling paint was lead-based -- or that it's not so surprising that small children like to eat it. Lead paint tastes sweet. Soon, Stone noticed a change in Antonio's behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From there he was kind of a little sick and restless, sleeping bad at night and kind of crying and a mood that normally wasn’t him,” Stone says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Stone took Antonio to the doctor and discovered that Antonio had a high level of lead in his blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From that he ended up with loss of hearing in his ear,” Stone says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately Alameda County stepped in to help Stone find a new place to live. Today they live in an apartment that is free of lead paint. But because of that early exposure to lead, Antonio, now three-years-old, has major hearing loss. He goes to a center for children with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone says Antonio has a speech therapist, because his words are \"slow and twisted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes a variety of county experts to handle a case like Antonio’s. This is easier for Alameda County because as part of its lead\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>poisoning prevention\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>program, the public health, environmental health and housing departments are integrated. The county program also has more resources than most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property owners of houses built before 1978 pay the county a $10 annual fee to respond to lead hazards. It’s one of the only assessments of its kind in California. With stable funding, the County tries to be more proactive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Belanger is a state certified lead project designer with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.achhd.org\">Alameda County Healthy Homes Department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get a better understanding of the issues he drove me around West Oakland – an area with industrial factories, art studios and he says, “a lot of older homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, 90 percent of houses have lead paint. Belanger says it’s not cheap to remove with an average cost of $5,000 per unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the lead can’t be removed he’ll help move the family out, as happened in Antonio’s case. But whatever the approach, Belanger says the key is getting the children away from the toxic lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many families in California that level of support isn't available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County is also a plaintiff in the lead paint trial. But unlike in Alameda, in LA County, it can take six months to resolve a case like Antonio’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Public Health Department, points to three main reasons for this lag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first: the sheer size of the county and the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have roughly one and a half million residences that have lead paint,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, unlike Alameda County, LA’s Public Health and Housing Departments are not integrated. Fielding says that lack of integration can delay action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, the third reason: money. LA County doesn’t have a dedicated property tax like Alameda County. It relies mainly on state funding and that amount has varied over the years. In addition, the county took a hit last year when \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/16/lead-poisoning-prevention-cuts/2817329/\">Congress cut almost all of its funding for the Centers for Disease Control’s lead program\u003c/a>. That money goes out to county health departments for outreach and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielding says this resulted in LA County’s lead program losing about $600,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time the CDC reported that even \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/ACCLPP/blood_lead_levels.htm\">lower levels of lead can cause permanent brain damage\u003c/a> than had previously been known. Yet Fielding says there’s less and less funding to protect children from lead exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is really catastrophic to see literally tens of thousands of kids having a level of poisoning that’s going to affect their ability to succeed in high school or to succeed in college,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Learn More:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>null\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/74674216\">Lead poisoning in California's kids: Antonio's story\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/user5638243\">CAhealthReport\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com\">Vimeo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/15671/lead-based-paint-poisoning-still-a-hazard-for-californias-most-vulnerable-children-lawsuit","authors":["240"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11"],"tags":["stateofhealth_268","stateofhealth_461"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_15716","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_5869":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_5869","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"5869","score":null,"sort":[1337291646000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"candy-is-bad-for-kids-because-it-might-be-laced-with-lead","title":"Candy is Bad for Kids ... Because It Might Be Laced with Lead","publishDate":1337291646,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_5876\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/05/Screen-Shot-2012-05-17-at-2.30.27-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-5876\" title='Yes, a candy named \"Toxic Waste\" was recalled. (Image: California Department of Public Health)' src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/05/Screen-Shot-2012-05-17-at-2.30.27-PM-300x272.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, a candy named \"Toxic Waste\" was recalled. (Image: California Department of Public Health)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Lyssa Rome\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like that, the number of children at risk for lead poisoning jumped five-fold yesterday as the Centers for Disease Control announced that it cut its threshold for lead poisoning diagnosis in half. The new diagnosis will occur at five micrograms per deciliter of blood. The former threshold was 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health advocates have worked to alert the public to the risks of lead in paint, toys and even jewelry. But lead can also be found in – of all things tempting to children – \u003cem>candy\u003c/em>. Candy with high levels of lead may not taste unusual. In fact, some kinds of lead even taste sweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a major environmental health risk. It affects almost every system in the body, including the brain and other organs, but the symptoms aren’t always obvious. For children, exposure to even minute quantities of lead can cause long-term\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>developmental problems, including lower IQ, and the damage may not be reversible.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“It is not entirely clear where the lead in many of the products is coming from.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/DEFAULT.aspx\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/DEFAULT.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">California’s Department of Public Health \u003c/a>began testing candy for lead in 2007 and has done 5,700 tests since. Over the years, it has \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/Documents/fdbLiCLiC07.pdf\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/Documents/fdbLiCLiC07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">issued warnings\u003c/a> [PDF] not to eat 188 different sweets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those candies are imported, mainly from four countries: Mexico, Malaysia, China and India. That’s where the candies come from, but what about the lead itself?\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not entirely clear where the lead in many of the products is coming from,” says Patrick Kennelly, the chief of the \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Pages/FDB%20Food%20Safety%20Program.aspx\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Pages/FDB%20Food%20Safety%20Program.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Public Health’s Food Safety Section\u003c/a>. “But products containing tamarind or mined sources of salt from certain regions of the world may have a higher likelihood of having elevated levels of lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candies with chili powder may also have high lead levels, according to the \u003ca title=\"http://www.fda.gov/food/foodsafety/foodcontaminantsadulteration/metals/lead/ucm172050.htm#lead\" href=\"http://www.fda.gov/food/foodsafety/foodcontaminantsadulteration/metals/lead/ucm172050.htm#lead\" target=\"_blank\">Food and Drug Administration\u003c/a>. One source of lead could be contaminated dirt in the fields where the peppers are grown. If the peppers are not thoroughly washed, the lead remains. Drying and processing the spice might also introduce high concentrations of lead. Other potential sources of lead in candy include the machinery used in the manufacturing process, candy packaging, and ink on wrappers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first four months of 2012, the Department of Public Health has issued advisories about Vagabundo brand lollipops from Mexico and nine different types of sesame candies from India and Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little over a year ago, the department recalled the \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/NR11-009.aspx\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/NR11-009.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Toxic Sludge brand’s Nuclear Waste Chew Bars\u003c/a>. Some of the candies had more than twice the acceptable amount of lead in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials worry about even small amounts of lead because, according to Kennelly, “There is no known safe blood lead level.” High levels of lead in the blood are especially dangerous for infants, children under the age of six, and pregnant women and their fetuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the DPH, in 2010, the most recent year for which data is available, nearly 2,300 California children tested positive for lead levels high enough to cause harm. With the new lead standards announced yesterday nearly 25,000 kids in California may have lead poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, the Orange County Register uncovered the problem of lead in Mexican candies in its investigative series \u003ca title=\"http://www2.ocregister.com/investigations/2004/lead/\" href=\"http://www2.ocregister.com/investigations/2004/lead/\" target=\"_blank\">Toxic Treats\u003c/a>. The Register profiled Javier Bonilla of La Habra. He tested positive for lead poisoning and the source was tamarind candies that came in clay pots. His mother, Gloria Bonilla, told the Register, \"If I had known, I wouldn't have given them to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Perez of Sacramento, whose son’s blood levels were three times the CDC’s threshold at the time, told the Register, “If the candy has lead, they should make sure it doesn't come here. ... What else has to be done?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the series ran, the state legislature \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/services/Documents/fdb%20LiC%20AB121%20Ch%20707%202005.pdf\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/services/Documents/fdb%20LiC%20AB121%20Ch%20707%202005.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">passed a law \u003c/a>directing the DPH to regularly test candy for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Pages/FDB%20Lead%20In%20Candy%20Program.aspx\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Pages/FDB%20Lead%20In%20Candy%20Program.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Lead in Candy\u003c/a> program, the DPH collects a wide range of candies from store shelves and tests them for lead. To prevent candies with high lead levels from reaching consumers, the DPH works with manufacturers on voluntary recalls and distributes health alerts to the public and local health departments. Store owners who knowingly sell candy laced with lead face fines of up to $500 per violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the recent recalls have shown, “the problem still exists,” says Kennelly. “But the level of lead contamination CDPH finds in candies appears to have reduced slightly over the years.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Just like that, the number of children at risk for lead poisoning jumped five-fold yesterday as the Centers for Disease Control announced that it cut its threshold for lead poisoning diagnosis in half. The new diagnosis will occur at five micrograms per deciliter of blood. The former threshold was 10.\r\n\r\nHealth advocates have worked to alert the public to the risks of lead in paint, toys and even jewelry. But lead can also be found in – of all things tempting to children – candy. Candy with high levels of lead may not taste unusual. In fact, some kinds of lead even taste sweet.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1337384281,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":795},"headData":{"title":"Candy is Bad for Kids ... Because It Might Be Laced with Lead | KQED","description":"Just like that, the number of children at risk for lead poisoning jumped five-fold yesterday as the Centers for Disease Control announced that it cut its threshold for lead poisoning diagnosis in half. The new diagnosis will occur at five micrograms per deciliter of blood. The former threshold was 10.\r\n\r\nHealth advocates have worked to alert the public to the risks of lead in paint, toys and even jewelry. But lead can also be found in – of all things tempting to children – candy. Candy with high levels of lead may not taste unusual. In fact, some kinds of lead even taste sweet.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Candy is Bad for Kids ... Because It Might Be Laced with Lead","datePublished":"2012-05-17T21:54:06.000Z","dateModified":"2012-05-18T23:38:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"5869 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=5869","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/05/17/candy-is-bad-for-kids-because-it-might-be-laced-with-lead/","disqusTitle":"Candy is Bad for Kids ... Because It Might Be Laced with Lead","path":"/stateofhealth/5869/candy-is-bad-for-kids-because-it-might-be-laced-with-lead","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_5876\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/05/Screen-Shot-2012-05-17-at-2.30.27-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-5876\" title='Yes, a candy named \"Toxic Waste\" was recalled. (Image: California Department of Public Health)' src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/05/Screen-Shot-2012-05-17-at-2.30.27-PM-300x272.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, a candy named \"Toxic Waste\" was recalled. (Image: California Department of Public Health)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Lyssa Rome\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like that, the number of children at risk for lead poisoning jumped five-fold yesterday as the Centers for Disease Control announced that it cut its threshold for lead poisoning diagnosis in half. The new diagnosis will occur at five micrograms per deciliter of blood. The former threshold was 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health advocates have worked to alert the public to the risks of lead in paint, toys and even jewelry. But lead can also be found in – of all things tempting to children – \u003cem>candy\u003c/em>. Candy with high levels of lead may not taste unusual. In fact, some kinds of lead even taste sweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a major environmental health risk. It affects almost every system in the body, including the brain and other organs, but the symptoms aren’t always obvious. For children, exposure to even minute quantities of lead can cause long-term\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>developmental problems, including lower IQ, and the damage may not be reversible.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“It is not entirely clear where the lead in many of the products is coming from.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/DEFAULT.aspx\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/DEFAULT.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">California’s Department of Public Health \u003c/a>began testing candy for lead in 2007 and has done 5,700 tests since. Over the years, it has \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/Documents/fdbLiCLiC07.pdf\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/Documents/fdbLiCLiC07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">issued warnings\u003c/a> [PDF] not to eat 188 different sweets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those candies are imported, mainly from four countries: Mexico, Malaysia, China and India. That’s where the candies come from, but what about the lead itself?\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not entirely clear where the lead in many of the products is coming from,” says Patrick Kennelly, the chief of the \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Pages/FDB%20Food%20Safety%20Program.aspx\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Pages/FDB%20Food%20Safety%20Program.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Public Health’s Food Safety Section\u003c/a>. “But products containing tamarind or mined sources of salt from certain regions of the world may have a higher likelihood of having elevated levels of lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candies with chili powder may also have high lead levels, according to the \u003ca title=\"http://www.fda.gov/food/foodsafety/foodcontaminantsadulteration/metals/lead/ucm172050.htm#lead\" href=\"http://www.fda.gov/food/foodsafety/foodcontaminantsadulteration/metals/lead/ucm172050.htm#lead\" target=\"_blank\">Food and Drug Administration\u003c/a>. One source of lead could be contaminated dirt in the fields where the peppers are grown. If the peppers are not thoroughly washed, the lead remains. Drying and processing the spice might also introduce high concentrations of lead. Other potential sources of lead in candy include the machinery used in the manufacturing process, candy packaging, and ink on wrappers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first four months of 2012, the Department of Public Health has issued advisories about Vagabundo brand lollipops from Mexico and nine different types of sesame candies from India and Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little over a year ago, the department recalled the \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/NR11-009.aspx\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/NR11-009.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Toxic Sludge brand’s Nuclear Waste Chew Bars\u003c/a>. Some of the candies had more than twice the acceptable amount of lead in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials worry about even small amounts of lead because, according to Kennelly, “There is no known safe blood lead level.” High levels of lead in the blood are especially dangerous for infants, children under the age of six, and pregnant women and their fetuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the DPH, in 2010, the most recent year for which data is available, nearly 2,300 California children tested positive for lead levels high enough to cause harm. With the new lead standards announced yesterday nearly 25,000 kids in California may have lead poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, the Orange County Register uncovered the problem of lead in Mexican candies in its investigative series \u003ca title=\"http://www2.ocregister.com/investigations/2004/lead/\" href=\"http://www2.ocregister.com/investigations/2004/lead/\" target=\"_blank\">Toxic Treats\u003c/a>. The Register profiled Javier Bonilla of La Habra. He tested positive for lead poisoning and the source was tamarind candies that came in clay pots. His mother, Gloria Bonilla, told the Register, \"If I had known, I wouldn't have given them to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Perez of Sacramento, whose son’s blood levels were three times the CDC’s threshold at the time, told the Register, “If the candy has lead, they should make sure it doesn't come here. ... What else has to be done?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the series ran, the state legislature \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/services/Documents/fdb%20LiC%20AB121%20Ch%20707%202005.pdf\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/services/Documents/fdb%20LiC%20AB121%20Ch%20707%202005.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">passed a law \u003c/a>directing the DPH to regularly test candy for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Pages/FDB%20Lead%20In%20Candy%20Program.aspx\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Pages/FDB%20Lead%20In%20Candy%20Program.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Lead in Candy\u003c/a> program, the DPH collects a wide range of candies from store shelves and tests them for lead. To prevent candies with high lead levels from reaching consumers, the DPH works with manufacturers on voluntary recalls and distributes health alerts to the public and local health departments. Store owners who knowingly sell candy laced with lead face fines of up to $500 per violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the recent recalls have shown, “the problem still exists,” says Kennelly. “But the level of lead contamination CDPH finds in candies appears to have reduced slightly over the years.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/5869/candy-is-bad-for-kids-because-it-might-be-laced-with-lead","authors":["8344"],"categories":["stateofhealth_14"],"tags":["stateofhealth_96","stateofhealth_20","stateofhealth_268"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_5876","label":"stateofhealth"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. 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