Sources of Cadmium

Possible sources of cadmium include:

• Cigarette smoke
• Air pollution such as car emissions
• Contaminated seafood
• Soft water
• Pesticides
• Phosphate fertilisers
• Batteries
• Galvanized pipes
• Paint
• Glaze on certain ceramics
• Rubber tyres
• Solders
• Oysters (contaminated)
• Peanuts, spinach, potatoes and cauliflower
• Food sources such as rice and wheat when they are grown in soil contaminated with super phosphate, sewage sludge and irrigation water
• Ayurvedic medicine
• Mines, zinc smelters, refiners of metals, plants that make cadmium products such as batteries, coatings or plastics

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