Many children and pregnant women may need to get new lead tests
because one of the most common lab tests may have given falsely low
readings, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
They may have mistakenly been given a clean bill of health when in fact they had dangerously high lead levels, the FDA said.
The blood tests were made by Magellan
Diagnostics and it's the only FDA-approved test used in most doctor's
offices, the FDA said.
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