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IICPH Comments on Lead in Drinking Water

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December 1, 2009

In September, Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights Commission accepted comments on whether to weaken the regulation requiring tap water testing for lead in schools and daycares built after 1989. Director Aliss Terpstra sent a comment pointing out that increased lead in tap water occurs when fluoridation chemicals are added to chlorinated drinking water, regardless of the date of construction, and therefore the regulation should not be changed. Children’s brains are now known to be harmed by very low levels of lead in their blood; children drinking fluoridated water have higher lead levels than those drinking water without added fluoride chemicals.

— IICPH

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