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Evaluating a Public Health Strategy for Lead Testing
A city's public health department plans to test for lead contamination in residential soil. Their strategy is to focus exclusively on properties located within a two-mile radius of a large industrial smelter that was shut down 40 years ago. Critically evaluate this strategy, explaining one major reason why it might fail to identify significant areas of lead exposure risk for the city's residents.
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