China’s State Council, the rough equivalent of a presidential cabinet, has taken an interest in the investigation of a small-town kindergarten near the northwestern city of Tianshui, where hundreds of children were found with dangerous amounts of lead in their bloodstreams.
The story became a national scandal after hundreds of children were hospitalized with lead poisoning in late June.
Blood tests ultimately discovered high levels of lead in 233 out of 251 students at the Heshi Peixin Kindergarten, located in the Maiji suburb of Tianshui. 201 of those students required hospitalization.
Investigators tested food served to the children and found incredibly high levels of lead in two items, a red date steamed breakfast cake and a sausage corn roll. Both contained over a
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