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Exide to test Frisco residents for lead in their blood

The City of Frisco issued a press release also released from Exide: Exide will allow all Frisco residents free blood tests for lead.

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The following information is distributed from the City of Frisco's News and Information service.

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***The following information has been released by Exide Technologies, Inc.

Blood Lead Testing Now Available for Residents of Frisco, TX

Frisco, TX – (November 4, 2010) – Exide Technologies has announced that testing for blood lead concentration is now available for all residents of the City of Frisco, at no charge. Exide will be responsible for all expenses incurred for the blood draw and testing. Frisco residents interested in the testing must go to the office of Dr. Vicki B. Davis at 8680 East Main Street, Suite 1E, Frisco, TX, phone number: 972-377-2447. The blood testing can be done by appointment or on a walk-in basis. Please note that walk-ins may have to wait for staff availability. Citizens will be asked to confirm their residency prior to the testing. All blood samples will be sent by Dr. Davis to ACL Laboratories for a lead concentration analysis. Results obtained by ACL will be returned to Dr. Davis. She will contact residents to provide and discuss the results and answer any questions.

“We are offering this testing to all residents of the City of Frisco in order to provide peace of mind regarding blood lead levels,” said Don Barar, plant manager for Exide’s Frisco recycling facility. “I encourage any citizen who has a question about blood lead levels to take advantage of this testing.”

For questions regarding the testing, please contact either Dr. Davis or Susan Jaramillo at Exide, (203) 699-9133.

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This entry was posted on November 5th, 2010 at 01:57:01 am and is filed under News Clippings, Environment, Public Health.

6 comments

Comment from: Concerned Resident [Visitor] Email
Can I use my own doctor so I know he's not getting paid off by Exide?
11/05/10 @ 07:27
Comment from: Chuck Bloom [Visitor] Email
More than 100,000 blood tests is going to be costly; who's picking up the tab? The city? Exide?
And since the plant has been there for decades, what about the thousands more who used to live there and have since moved? Don't they deserve equal consideration for possible illnesses?
And if problems are unearthed, what will be the solution? Closing the plant?
As said before, it's been spewing and bleching this junk into the atmosphere for years and nothing has been done about it. And with the new power in Congress swinging to politicians (bought and paid for by these kind of polluting industries and you know who you are Mr. Barton). the EPA's oversight will all but disappear.
But that filth in the air will not disappear or dissipate. You will just keep breathing it in and praying it doesn't kill you eventually.
Have a nice day.
11/05/10 @ 07:57
Comment from: COLLIN COUNTY ATTORNEY [Visitor] Email
Oh wow. How generous. The lead poisoners will test my blood for poison. That. is. so. jacked. up.
11/05/10 @ 11:42
Comment from: old collin native [Visitor] Email
How about the carpet baggers not moving next to an existing business that they have concerns about? This is just like the twits that move next to a dairy and complain about the smell, or next to the train tracks and the whistle blowing wakes them up, or the folks that just didn't notice the asphalt just over the hill was part of an airport. Excide was there when Frisco had just about 5000 people....if any wone is to blame for anything it is the greedy developers (true power in Collin) who build homes near heavy industry, and their accomplices at City Hall.
11/08/10 @ 08:07
Comment from: b cast [Visitor] Email
what about the people that work,go to school and play there, should they be tested to? I mean my daughter spends a majority of her time in frisco.
11/08/10 @ 15:45
Comment from: mytummyhurts [Visitor]
Well, I live on the Plano/Frisco border. So, when the wind blows from the north I'm getting the Exide stuff. Can I be tested? What's the geographic radius limit to determine those affected? Just Frisco city limits????
11/10/10 @ 07:33

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