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Article: MARYLAND SCHOOLS TO FOCUS ON PREVENTING LEAD POISONING DURING AWARENESS WEEK IN OCTOBER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 19, 2007
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The Maryland Department of Education issued the following news release:
The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) will promote Lead Poisoning Prevention Awareness Week, October 21-27. MSDE, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of the Environment, with the assistance of EnviroHealth Connections - a cooperative project of the Center for Urban Environmental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - and Maryland Public Television, will provide four lead poisoning lessons for Maryland classrooms.Childhood lead poisoning is the number one preventable environmental health problem in Maryland and nationwide. Every year thousands of children and adults are ...