MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'cadmium'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:50:05 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3767337&cid=t_136241_160_f&fid=36189&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skinmdblog.com%2F227%2Fhow-to-choose-safe-natural-skin-care-products%2F Choosing safe and natural skin care products can be very hard.   It isn’t that manufacturers don’t “claim” to provide them.  It’s just that their claims are not always completely honest. Safety is actually the big issue here.  If you are like most people, you would like naturally occurring ingredients, because you think they are safer than artificial ingredients. In many cases, you are right.   But, there are a few exceptions. Lead, mercury, cadmium and other heavy metals are found in nature.   They are probably not on the list of ingredients in your favourite cosmetics, they can be there as contaminants in natural plant extracts. Numerous contaminants are present in tap water, which is why water must be purified before it is used in skin care products. P... Skin MD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3767337 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:43:12 +0100 3767337 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796742&cid=t_136241_136_f&fid=35294&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psa-rising.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F09%2Ftoxic-ash-toxic-waters%2F People in Appalachia have lived and worked with coal for a long time, enduring struggles and tragedies associated with the harsh condtions of coal mining underground. But in the past few years many communities have witnessed massive explosions slicing the tops off entire mountains, hurling toxic rubble into inhabited valleys, turning [...] (Source: psa-rising.com/blog) psa-rising.com/blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796742 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:44:57 +0100 2796742 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2414853&cid=t_136241_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fheavy-metal-packaging.html Researchers in Argentina have developed a new approach to testing food packaging for trace amounts of the toxic heavy metal cadmium. Cadmium is one of several additives used extensively in the manufacture of plastics. Regulations limit the concentration of cadmium allowable, of course. In the European Union that limit is 100 milligrams per kilogram. But, the toxic metal has a long biological half-life (10 to 30 years) and so essentially accumulates in your body on repeated exposure. Analytical advances aside, I asked Rodolfo Wuilloud of LISAMEN, how big a problem is cadmium in food packaging? Should the public be concerned? “The presence of heavy metals in plastic food packaging is an important problemheavy metals in plastic food packaging is an important problem considering the exte... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2414853 Fri, 15 May 2009 15:46:07 +0100 2414853 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=771605&cid=t_136241_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F08%2F01%2Fwhat-if-our-water-made-us-sick%2F Filed under: BlogsHere in North America, clean water is something we most certainly take for granted. We flush it down the toilet and the sink, we throw it out if it is not perfectly fresh. We're afraid of out perfectly clean tap water so we invest in expensive filters or buy our water from the store. And yet so many people out there would do anything for that tap water.Here's a story from Dr. Gupta, CNN's medical correspondent, about a village in China that gets its water supply from the Hengshui River, which happens to be the river that receives heavy metal and mining deposits. On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the most toxic--too toxic to safely touch, let alone ingest--the Hengshui rates a staggering 5. Full of known carcinogens like arsenic, lead, zinc and cadmium, the water is slowly kil... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=771605 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 771605