{"id":99304,"date":"2020-07-27T10:34:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=99304"},"modified":"2020-07-27T10:36:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:36:01","slug":"mississippi-today-director-of-national-sea-grant-law-center-discusses-lead-exposure-risk-in-mississippi-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/mississippi-today-director-of-national-sea-grant-law-center-discusses-lead-exposure-risk-in-mississippi-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Today: Director of National Sea Grant Law Center Discusses Lead Exposure Risk in Mississippi Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2020\/07\/24\/how-many-mississippi-kids-are-poisoned-by-lead-massive-undercounts-inconsistent-testing-provides-officials-few-answers\/\">&#8220;How many Mississippi kids are poisoned by lead? Massive undercounts, inconsistent testing provides officials few answers&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>By Erica Hensley\/Mississippi Today<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">GREENWOOD \u2014 Mayor Carolyn McAdams has no way of knowing how big a problem lead exposure among children in her city is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The devastating effects of lead exposure in children are as bad here in Greenwood, according to limited data available, as anywhere in the state: Three percent of children tested in Leflore County from 2012 to 2017 showed high lead levels \u2014 well above the state average and one of the highest in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNobody\u2019s ever said, \u2018Leflore County is high in lead-based paint poisoning,\u2019 and to me that\u2019s everything,\u201d McAdams said. \u201c(State officials) know these statistics and they know these problems, but they\u2019re not getting the information to the people that need the information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2026..<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Stephanie Showalter-Otts, director of National Sea Grant Law Center at the University of Mississippi, conducted research on lead-in-water problems in the Mississippi Delta, which ultimately led to a new partnership with the state health department to test families\u2019 water for lead. She says part of the problem is the cycle of low testing, which keeps the issue of targeted lead prevention off the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cFrom the very beginning, families aren\u2019t getting information they need \u2026 and there\u2019s a lot of misinformation about actual risk factors and how many kids in Mississippi are impacted,\u201d she said. \u201cMy biggest concern is that because our testing rates are so low, we really just don\u2019t know how many kids might have elevated blood lead levels, and therefore we don\u2019t know the full extent of the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2020\/07\/24\/how-many-mississippi-kids-are-poisoned-by-lead-massive-undercounts-inconsistent-testing-provides-officials-few-answers\/\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How many Mississippi kids are poisoned by lead? 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