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Re:Half of American kids have lead in their blood, doctors say by im3w1l on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @11:17AM (#28683804)
That statement has the exact same problem. With sufficiently sensitive tests you might in theory be able to detect the negative effects of a single lead atom.

What we really want to know is: how big of a deal is this really?

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Re:Half of American kids have lead in their blood, doctors say by lumost on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:55PM (#28687983)
There are unlikely to be people in the US with blood levels less than 1 order of magnitude less than the EPA action threshold. Lead is in your drinking water, food, and if you lived near anything with leaded - your air.

We used to use lead based pesticides at the dawn of the 20th century, if you eat any food grown in the midwest you are exposing yourself to reasonably large quantities of lead.

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Re:Half of American kids have lead in their blood, doctors say by Dylan16807 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @02:46PM (#28686062)
Does a single atom have known negative effects?
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