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Lead poisoning - I remember when I was younger, lead poisoning used to be a bigger deal. but haven't heard much about it recently because the government had banned its use in paint. I had always just assumed that we did not know that lead was toxic, and that is why it was allowed to be in paint. What I learned from the article is that there were concerns about lead exposure in ancient Greece, and there were several events even within the United States that spread concern over the link between lead and harming ones health. My main question is, if we knew lead was toxic, why didn't we ban it? Instead, we just reduced the acceptable amount, but that never solved the problem.

Nigeria - This was a very sad article to read. It is just another example of how harmful toxins can make their way into the food we eat, and like many other things, end up harming the most vulnerable in society.

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  1. UnknownOctober 28, 2018 at 12:47 PM

    Hi Jordan,

    I have the same thought about all of the other chemicals that have been shown to be harmful or toxic to humans, and yet our government still has not banned them!

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  2. Caitlin WintonNovember 3, 2018 at 8:15 AM

    Hi Jordan,

    Such a great point that you bring up about how it should have been banned in the first place. I think it is ridiculous that our country lets chemicals be legal until this cause mass human harm

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