The New York City Council is considering legislation to protect New Yorkers from lead.
The new bills would ensure that the city uses the most up-to-date standards to protect children from being poisoned by lead.
Cooper Burkett, a young man who was diagnosed with lead poisoning when he was a baby, testified at the hearing. "I've had to live with multiple side effects from my lead exposure as a baby. Shortly after my lead levels shot up to 19, I lost the ability to speak. I have processing issues, short-term memory loss, anemia, asthma," he said.
"We as a society, as a community, need to commit to doing everything we can to eradicate lead exposure," Burkett's mother, Shannon Burkett, said.I'm appointing Jasmine Blake as our citywide lead compliance officer to take on this threat.
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