heavy-metal pollution: China's Cadmium Rice (part 2)
Continued from the post: heavy-metal pollution: China's Cadmium Rice (part 1).
It was just 10 per cent of the samples collected in one survey that were tainted. So it's absolutely wrong to conclude that 10 per cent of the rice sold on the market is contaminated with cadmium. And agricultural experts in China said the pollution is confined to particular regions and there is no call for public panic.
Anyway, the pollutions of heavy metals contaminating rice in China aroused strong reactions at domestic residents and abroad. Because tf these Cadmium-tainted rice is consumed, it absolutely could damage a person's kidneys and cause renal failure. And currently China has no laws to prevent the harvesting of rice from fields which are polluted by cadmium.
According to some Chinese researchers, rice is predisposed to cadmium contamination just because it assimilates heavy metals in the soil more easily than other crops, such as soybeans and corn. Cadmium contamination exists across the whole nation of China. The Cadmium-tainted rice pollution is more serious in Southern China than in Northern China. Because the soils in Southern China are acidic. For example, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangdong of China are particular trouble areas.
