Surprisingly, calcium supplements may be contaminated with lead, because the sources of calcium in supplements—like seashells or cow bones—are contaminated.
Remediation has involved the identification of contaminated areas in the villages, removal of all contaminated soil, its disposal in secure landfill sites and its replacement with clean soil.
Four children have died after drinking the contaminated milk made by some of China's main producers.
The FDA, in revealing findings on mercury-contaminated fish, claimed that if women had a list of all the highly-contaminated fish, they probably wouldn't eat it at all.
The disease is caused by ingesting food or water contaminated with a comma-shaped bacterium called Vibrio cholerae.
Officials late Sunday revealed that two more vegetables, canola and chrysanthemum greens, have also been found to be contaminated and in three more prefectures.
In Maryland and Massachusetts, for example, patients have put contaminated items in the trash, and the trucks that collected it set off alarms at dumps.
"Children are especially susceptible to third-hand smoke exposure because they breathe near, crawl and play on, touch and mouth contaminated surfaces," according to the study.
Clothing or personal belongings that may be contaminated can be tested following the guidance under Large Spills to see if they can be safely returned for use.
Worse, the white flour our ancestors used was usually contaminated, often with the toxic chemical alum (made with human urine), which made bad quality flour look whiter.
The bill would give the F. D. A. new powers to enforce disease-prevention plans on food facilities, trace the source of contaminated foods quickly, and order mandatory recalls.
Meanwhile, plans to use regular power to restart the cooling system hit a roadblock when it turned out that cables had to be laid through turbine buildings flooded with the contaminated water.
Workers drain contaminated water near the Zijin copper mine in Shanghang, Fujian province, after toxins seeped into the Ting river, disrupting drinking supplies and killing 100 tonnes of fish.
Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by contaminated food or water. It causes watery diarrhea that can lead to severe dehydration and kill within hours if left untreated.
Authorities dumped some of the waste seawater used to cool the reactors back into the sea, where it joined contaminated water leaking from cracks in the plant and nuclear fallout from the air.
