The Milwaukee Health Department has lost the help of federal employees who were helping with lead contamination investigations at Milwaukee Public Schools.
They were swept up in recent mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the city’s health commissioner said.
The employees, part of a division that focuses on lead poisoning prevention, were helping the city create a plan for mass testing of schoolchildren for lead, Health Commissioner Mike Totoraitis told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel…