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April 25, 2014 04:23 pm PDT
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Greenpeace: Heavy metals pollution in China makes 'Cadmium rice' a growingproblem
Greenpeace this week released a report on soil and rice crops sampled in villages close to a concentration of heavy metals smelters in China's Hunan Province, "an area that ranks first in rice output and among the top five in nonferrous metals production." The results showed that both rice and soil near the industrial complex are contaminated by heavy metals, including lead.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CgHYsHTFPXM/story01.htm
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