NH Listens

Thursday, August 13, 2020
Photo showing a window with peeling, possibly hazardous lead-based paint.

Photo courtesy the Laconia Daily Sun

New Hampshire’s lead poisoning rate is twice the national average, according to a 2019 report by New Hampshire Listens, a research project of the 鶹app’s Carsey School of Public Policy. Each year, roughly 600 New Hampshire children are diagnosed with elevated lead in their bloodstream, amounts of a toxic metal that exceed the levels found in 97.5 percent of American children, according to data from NH DHHS and the Pediatric Environmental Health Center at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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