US lowers cutoff for lead poisoning in immature kids

<p>ATLANTA (AP) — For a initial time in 20 years, U.S. health officials have lowered a threshold for lead poisoning in young children.
The new customary announced Wednesday means that hundreds of thousands some-more youngsters could be diagnosed with high levels of lead. Too many lead is damaging to building smarts and can meant a revoke IQ.
Unfortunately, many, many some-more relatives will be stealing bad news, pronounced Rebecca Morley, executive executive of a National Center for Healthy Housing, a Maryland-based nonprofit focused on hazards to kids in homes.
The customary is for children younger than 6. Recent investigate swayed experts and supervision officials that immature children could be spoiled from lead levels in their blood that are revoke than a aged standard.
Really, there is no protected turn of blood lead in children, pronounced Christopher Portier, of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He heads a agencys environmental health programs.
The CDC announc...