“While employees in the agricultural and chemical industries face the greatest exposure, the general public may ingest pesticides from contaminated food, soil and water.”
The heavy metal called cadmium mainly gets to the body through food in non-smokers.
And lead is a naturally occurring toxic metal with environmental contamination through mining, smelting, manufacturing and recycling.
The research states: “Although soil pollution with heavy metals and its association with cardiovascular diseases is especially a problem [in] low- and middle-income countries since their populations are disproportionately exposed to these environmental pollutants, it becomes a problem for any country in the world due to the increasing globalisation of food supply chains and uptake of these heavy metals with fruits, vegetables and meat.”
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