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4. Not necessarily - Japan recorded cadmium poisoning outbreaks in Toyama starting in 1912

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 09:45 AM

Jun 2013

Lots of mining and industrial processes that could have accounted for the contamination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itai-itai_disease

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"You should, in no way, take any of this personally. It's just business." phantom power Jun 2013 #1

When you knowingly poison someone, and they die, isn't that murder? CanonRay Jun 2013 #2

Where could all that cadmium be coming from?? wtmusic Jun 2013 #3

Often a contaminant in runoff from zinc mining and processing ... eppur_se_muova Jun 2013 #6

there was no cadmium pollution before solar panels of course CreekDog Jun 2013 #7

Isn't that a damning indictment of the evils of greed? Nihil Jun 2013 #8