Unveiling Lead in Consumer Products in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Pure Earth’s Findings
Apr 29 , 2024
Unveiling Lead in Consumer Products in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Pure Earth's Findings Updated: April 29, 2024 At the World Economic Forum in January 2024, USAID Administrator Samantha Power highlighted lead poisoning as a top USAID priority, urging world leaders.
ReadThank You, Sen. Patrick Leahy, for Your Support and Actions To Curtail Global Lead Pollution
Dec 15 , 2022
Below is our letter to the editor published in Vermont's Brattleboro Reformer on Dec. 13, and in the Bennington Banner on Dec. 14, 2022. Dear Editor: We would like to publicly thank Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy for his long-standing and.
ReadGhana: Pure Earth School Clubs in Ghana: Where Children Learn about Pollution to Safeguard Their Future
Aug 01 , 2022
The Pure Earth Club is a school club comprised of students who are being taught and nurtured to love their environment and to protect it through the reduction of pollution, not only by words but by action. They are supervised.
ReadRepublic of Georgia: Solving the Mystery of Widespread Lead Poisoning in Georgian Children
May 03 , 2022
In 2019, the Republic of Georgia faced a childhood lead poisoning crisis. A national survey had revealed that 41% of children ages 2-7 in the country had blood lead levels at or above 5 μg/dL (the level at which the.
ReadPure Earth, USC and Macquarie University Publish Landmark Lead Study in The Lancet Planetary Health Journal
Mar 12 , 2021
The March 2021 issue of The Lancet Planetary Health journal includes an important paper that supports Pure Earth’s previous publications asserting the extent of the childhood lead poisoning crisis in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The paper, Blood lead levels.
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