From soil pollution to "cadmium rice” to public health impacts: An interdisciplinary analysis of influencing factors and possible responses

This article discusses the causes of the contamination of rice with cadmium in China and considers what we know about the severity of the problem. It argues that it is misleading to extrapolate simply from levels of cadmium in soil to health risks, because the uptake of cadmium by crops and the heal...

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Main Authors: Holdaway, J, Wuyi, W
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2018