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Battery boom drives Bangladesh lead poisoning
April 02, 2025
|Gulf Today
Bangladesh Jungyed Akter is 12 years old but the toxic lead coursing through his veins has left him with the diminutive stature of someone several years younger.
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Lead poisoning is not a new phenomenon in Bangladesh, and the causes are manifold.
They include the heavy metals' widespread and continued use in paint, in defiance of a government ban, and its use as an adulterant in turmeric spice powder to improve its colour and perceived quality.
A great many areas are blamed on informal battery recycling factories that have proliferated around the country in response to rising demand.
Children exposed to dangerous levels of lead experience intellectual and cognitive performance anaemia, stunted growth and lifelong neurological disorders.
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