ECOBOND Adds Bitterant Technology to Lead-Based Paint Treatment
ARVADA, CO - In a move to further serve widespread issues associated with the dangers of lead paint, James M. Barthel, President and creator of the ECOBOND® family of products, has made the strategic decision to add Bitrex® Bitterant Technology to the company’s lead paint treatment product, ECOBOND - Lead Defender®.
The Centers for Disease Control reports that today at least four million households have children living in them that are being exposed to high levels of lead. There are approximately half a million U.S. children ages 1-5 with blood lead levels above five micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL), the reference level at which CDC recommends public health actions be initiated. Reuters found nearly 3,000 areas with recently recorded lead poisoning rates at least double those in Flint during the peak of that city's contamination crisis. And more than 1,100 of these communities had a rate of elevated blood tests at least four times higher.