Depressing, but not a surprise. That said, the recent scare about arsenic (another heavy metal) in rice appears to me to be based largely on misunderstandings about how stable the arsenic compounds found in the rice are - I would want to know if cadmium levels in people’s bodies were rising. Though even if the amount absorbed was small, there could be a feedback loop, if treated sewage is used as a fertilizer…
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