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In 2021, when Dade County Schools Superintendent Josh Ingle was in his first year on the job, his facilities manager came to him with an idea that seemed like a no-brainer: a program that would use federal funds to test his schools’ water fixtures for lead. Previously, the district had paid a third-party business to […]
Health officials are warning parents after a popular children’s cup was found to contain unsafe levels of lead.
More than 345,000 children’s cups are being recalled due to lead levels that exceed the federal content ban, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday.
The CUPKIN stainless steel cups, sold by Amazon and Cupkin from Jan. 2018 through March 2023, contain levels of lead that exceed federal limits, officials said.
In 59 tests at 30 schools over the past ten years, lead was found to be at or above the safe UK limit of 10 micrograms of lead per litre, according to data from the Environmental Information Regulations.