Efforts to combat the Flint water emergency are working, according to research in the Journal of Pediatrics.
Blood samples from thousands of children were analyzed over a 10 year period. The percentage of children with dangerously high lead levels dropped from more than 11-percent to 3-percent over that 10-year period… except in the 2 years during the height of the emergency. That’s when lead levels spiked, after the source of the water was changed from Detroit water to the Flint River. According to the research, blood lead levels in Flint children are about average compared to the rest of Michigan.
Medical experts emphasize, that there is no safe lead level.