Blood tests on the youngest child living at a contaminated home in Selwyn St, North Dunedin, have detected no trace of lead poisoning.
However, the child's mother - who lives at the home with two other adults and her three children - still faces a nervous wait, after her doctor recommended the same tests for one of her two older children.
Tarlene, who does not want her surname used, said one child had spent more time helping when ornamental gardens at the property were dug up by the adults living at the address earlier this year.
The tenants rented the property from the Otago Regional Council in March, unaware the soil's lead levels were between two and four times the guideline for safe residential use.
Council staff had instructed the property's managers, Harveys Dunedin, to warn tenants about the contamination and tell them not to eat vegetables or fruit grown on the property.
But Harveys' staff failed to warn the latest tenants.
The family's plight was revealed by the Otago Daily Times last month.
Council soil tests had found the level of lead contamination to be between 700mg and 800mg a kg of soil, and there was one result of 1100mg a kg. The guideline for safety is 300mg a kg.
Contacted yesterday, Harveys principal Bruce Robinson said he would wait for results of the second round of blood tests, but stressed "the ball is completely in the tenants' court".
He had offered "reasonable" financial assistance to the tenants if they decided to move.
The blood test result for Tarlene's 1-year-old daughter, Azariah, did not alter the fact Harveys had made a mistake in not advising the tenants of the contamination, and steps had been taken to ensure that did not happen again, he said.
That included attaching a note to the property's listing in the company's property management software, warning of the contamination and the requirement to advise all tenants, he said.
Council support services manager Gerard Collings said he would speak to council chief executive Graeme Martin about the blood test results before the council decided its next step.
Results from new soil tests taken in the days after the tenants' plight was revealed were also expected later this week, he said.
