Considering Some Negative Implications of an Ever-Decreasing U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Blood Lead Threshold and “No Safe Level” Health Messaging-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Considering Some Negative Implications of an Ever-Decreasing U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Blood Lead Threshold and “No Safe Level” Health Messaging

Published:2023-08-23 Issue:35 Volume:57 Page:12935-12939
ISSN:0013-936X
Container-title:Environmental Science & Technology
language:en
Short-container-title:Environ. Sci. Technol.

Author:

Roy Siddhartha¹^ORCID,Dietrich Kim N.²,Gomez Hernan F.³⁴,Edwards Marc A.⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. The Water Institute, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, 4114 McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516, United States

2. Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267, United States

3. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States

4. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Hurley Medical Center, One Hurley Plaza, Flint, Michigan 48503, United States

5. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 418 Durham Hall, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States

Publisher

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Subject

Environmental Chemistry,General Chemistry

Link

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.3c04766

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