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> the elderly who were exposed as children While the effects of lead compound over a lifetime, the measured figure is blood lead levels, which will drop to zer
by londons_explore 3y ago
> the elderly who were exposed as children
While the effects of lead compound over a lifetime, the measured figure is blood lead levels, which will drop to zero if you stop consuming lead, with a half life of 28 days.
Therefore, the measurements made in 2023 mostly reflect lead actually consumed by humans in 2023.
- fsckboy 3y agoexcept the sentence I quoted from the report says it's talking about previous exposure in childhood. The original point I was responding to say half the population; children are less than a quarter of the population. "...yesterday's children, who are victims of what we term legacy lead exposures. We estimate that over 170 million Americans alive today were exposed to high-lead levels in early childhood, several million of whom were exposed to five-plus times the current reference level"