Children sickened from lead dust in family car

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ATLANTA – Some childhood lead poisonings in Maine last year came from an unusual source — the family car. Government health officials said Thursday the six cases are the first ever attributed to lead dust on childhood safety seats. The car seats themselves weren’t the source; the inside of family cars were contaminated through a parent’s workplace.

Parents got lead dust on their clothes at work and then shed it in the cars, said Tina Bernier of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

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