'Harmful' rise in children's lead levels 'concerning' for regional SA city

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The number of children with harmful levels of lead in their blood in Port Pirie has more than doubled since 2017.

Nyrstar said it was committed to continuing to lower lead emissions in Port Pirie, and has maintained once the new plant is fully operational sometime this year, emissions should drastically reduce.

But Environment Protection Authority [EPA] director Keith Baldry said there was more work to be done. "Nyrstar is confident that the period-to-date lead-in-air concentration at Pirie West Primary School will be under the compliance limit as required at the next quarterly assessment on the 31st March 2019," the company said.

 

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Why are we allowing our children to be poisoned? It makes absolutely no sense.

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