Value of blood tests near Exide recycling plant questioned
Saturday, September 14, 2013 - 02:30
in Health & Medicine
Tests of residents near Exide's Vernon facility won't pinpoint a source of any contamination and come too late, some activists say.Los Angeles County's plan to offer blood tests for lead poisoning to hundreds of thousands of people in southeast Los Angeles was greeted as a political victory in working-class communities that have long worried about the health effects of emissions from a Vernon battery recycler.