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Lead Poisoning in India
October 18 , 2022
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- NITI Aayog and CSIR’s joint report highlighted the growing concern of lead poisoning among children under 19 years of age in India.
- India has the highest health and economic burden caused by lead poisoning.
- The 2020 report found that India accounted for 275,561,163 of the total 800 million children who were poisoned by lead across the world.
- This means that 50 per cent of children in India suffered lead poisoning.
- It also caused 2.3 lakh premature deaths in the country.
- The report found that Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh have the highest average blood lead levels (BLL) among the Indian states.
- They accounted for 40% the total Indian population with high average BLL.
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