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Lead Cans

Daniel talks with thirteen year old Cason Schmit who decided to see for himself if an FDA regulation banning lead soldered cans was really working. Cason went to some stores in San Francisco and did his own tests and found many cans with lead solder seams in area grocery stores. The FDA representative Dr. Ricard Jacobs tells Daniel that they decided to investigate and found that Cason was on to something.

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