Battery factory poisons 24 children in China
January 7, 2011
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Thursday 6th January, 2011 (ANI)
Twenty-four children, aged between nine months and 16 years old, have been hospitalised for lead poisoning caused by battery factories in their east China village, state media said, marking the latest in a string of battery-related poisonings in recent years.
The official Xinhua News Agency said that local authorities had shut two battery factories in Anhui province’s Huaining county after tests found that at least 200 local children had elevated lead levels, with 24 of them requiring hospitalisation.
Xinhua said the factories lie just across the street from homes despite regulations that say battery plants cannot be within a 1,600 foot radius of residential communities.
It did not say when the factories started operating, or what kind of batteries
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