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Urgent State and National Level Action Plans needed to tackle lead poisoning in India: Experts

New Delhi [India], October 11 (ANI/NewsVoir): Drawing attention to the looming global health crisis triggered by lead poisoning, particularly in India, where over 2,30,000 people die annually due to exposure to lead pollution, policymakers, scientists and researchers underscored the need for urgent responses at both the national and state levels to tackle the problem at a seminar on 'Understanding Lead Poisoning Prevalence in India' co-hosted by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Pure Earth in New Delhi on Tuesday. India accounts for 26 per cent of global deaths due to lead exposure every year and 50 per cent of children with elevated blood lead levels globally are found in the country. Lead poisoning is associated with the loss of intelligence up to 5 IQ points. The staggering findings were part of a report jointly published by UNICEF and Pure Earth in 2020, the data of which was reviewed and published by the NITI Aayog in association with the Council of Scientific

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