Contaminated spices purchased from poorly regulated sources can explain some cases of lead poisoning that involve several members of a family, say Alan D. Woolf of Children’s Hospital in Boston and Nicholas T. Woolf of Lexington (Mass.) Christian Academy.
In one case that the researchers examined, a family had bought two kinds of spices in the Republic of Georgia before emigrating to the United States.
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