It has been banned for almost thirty years and yet still poisons more than two-hundred Granite State children a year, sometimes with devastating long-term effects. As part of NHPR’s series on lead poisoning this week – we’ll examine its causes, costs and consequences...and get your stories too. Laura's guests are Joe Nelson of Nelson Real Estate and President of the Seacoast Chapter of the NH Property Owners Association; Bethany Fleishman, Outreach Assistant for Dartmouth's Toxic Metals Research Program, Collaborator with Manchester's Lead Poisoning Prevention Coalition and Former Participant in the "Get the Lead Out Of Vermont" task force and Betsi DeVries, Democratic Senator from Manchester, member of the Governor's Task Force on Lead Paint Poisoning and sponsor of a bill this session to expand inspections and help property owners get rid of lead paint. We'll also hear from Sandra Roseberry, who lived in a house in the early 1980s with lead paint that affected her three children. This Exchange program is part of a special NHPR series on lead paint.
