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20 May 2011

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Xinhua

Excessive lead levels found in 136 people living near battery plant in south China

A total of 136 people residing near a battery plant in...Guangdong Province have been found to have excessive lead levels in their blood...Those with excessive lead levels live near Heyuan Sanwei battery…59 were diagnosed with lead poisoning, said the spokesman, without clarifying the criteria for lead poisoning. A Xinhua reporter at the site said the battery plant had suspended operations on Thursday. Further, the county government sent an investigation team to the company and detained its legal representative...