Paris police have warned that the melted roof of Notre Dame Cathedral has left extremely high levels of lead in the square in front of the fire-damaged building and the roads around it, but added there was no danger of toxic inhalation
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"The analysis of the samples made since Notre Dame's fire reveal that there is no risk related to lead ingestion from the air, but confirm the presence of lead dust in the immediate neighborhood of the cathedral," the police said in a statement on Thursday. The inferno that ripped through the Paris landmark in April melted 300 tons of lead from its roof and steeple, according to French environmental campaign group Robin des Bois.
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