Tamarind fruit candy from Mexico, for instance, has been linked to elevated levels of lead.
Children exposed to elevated levels of lead can suffer from comas, convulsions, and even death.
The importers, in the commission's documents, often assert that their contracts prohibit jewelry with elevated levels of lead.
Though the city had previously said 19 children in public housing had tested positive for elevated levels of lead, the city's Department of Health said that 820 children younger than 6 living in Nycha housing had elevated levels of lead.
Uncontrolled burning leads to contaminated groundwater, and one study found elevated levels of lead in children living in Guiyu.
Fewer toddlers are testing positive in New Jersey for elevated levels of lead in their blood, according to a report by the Department of Health.
Residents, especially children, likely suffered irreversible brain damage as a consequence of needlessly being exposed to elevated levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin.
Officials from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates children's products, said that they would prefer that there be no elevated levels of lead in bibs.
TO the long list of food conundrums, add this: research has found elevated levels of lead in eggs from chickens in New York City public neighborhood gardens.
Elevated levels of lead have been found in schools across the US in the wake of the toxic water scandal that has roiled Flint, Michigan, since 2014.
Young scientists and their professor helped force Michigan officials to acknowledge the elevated levels of lead in drinking water, and now the government has requested the team's assistance.
