Lead poisons more than 600 people

HANGZHOU - Local health authorities have discovered that more than 600 people, including 103 children, were suffering from lead poisoning in East China's Zhejiang province on Sunday.

Workers at 25 family-run workshops that process tinfoil in Yangxunqiao township in the province's Shaoxing county have dangerously high levels of lead in their blood, according to the results of a preliminary medical test.

Several of the workers' children also have high amounts of lead in their blood.