Even the pencils used by children all over the world for centuries are nothing but lead covered with a timber outer surface, what about their ill effects?
On 11/13/17, Naresh Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Even I have found this very astonishing. > Naresh > > On 11/13/17, Kotian, H P <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi >> I am wondering what this is all about. Lead content is found in ink and >> in >> ink-print there would be lead content. While in Braille, the printing is >> done by embossing. Even the old days printer would use zinc sheet and the >> computer printers have metal pins made of steel to emboss. >> >> I am baffled! Would someone fill me in? >> Harish. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf >> Of avinash shahi >> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 11:32 AM >> To: accessindia <[email protected]>; J L Kaul >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: [AI] Case to ponder: kolkata HC takes on: "Lead braille >> affecting >> kids, PIL tells court" >> >> https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/lead-braille-affecting-kids-pil-tells-court/articleshow/61599469.cms >> KOLKATA: A visually impaired advocate has urged Calcutta high court to >> give >> an order to replace all lead-made braille prints with plastic ones. In >> her >> PIL, she attached a survey that shows blind student using braille scripts >> with high lead content are increasingly complaining of sleeplessness, >> lack >> of apetite, gastric ailments and loss of memory...Petitioner Snigdha >> Acharya, the daughter of retired high court judge Shankar Acharya, is now >> studying for her post-graduate diploma on public health care and medicine >> law at the National University of Juridical Sciences...A report by the >> National Test House shows braille scripts have 98.11% lead content. This >> is >> a major health hazard for the visually impaired, the PIL states, adding, >> "The Centre and states are negligent about lead's harmful effect on blind >> students."..Snigdha's counsel Srikanta Dutta argued, "The state is >> distributing braille devices, which have high lead content, sent by >> central >> agencies without taking any precaution. The Centre should use plastic to >> make braille devices."..After the PIL was moved, the division bench of >> Acting Chief Justice Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya and Justice Arijit Banerjee >> fixed the hearing for 2pm. 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