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Why Is The Pollutant A Problem?: Toxicity, Poisoning and Carcinogenicity

Cadmium is a toxic pollutant that poses serious health and environmental risks. It can cause kidney cancer, lung damage, bone damage, and even death if humans ingest or inhale it. In the environment, cadmium bioaccumulates in organisms and ecosystems through plants absorbing it from soil and fish taking it up from water, and it is highly persistent and toxic to aquatic life and some animals and plants.

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Why Is The Pollutant A Problem?: Toxicity, Poisoning and Carcinogenicity

Cadmium is a toxic pollutant that poses serious health and environmental risks. It can cause kidney cancer, lung damage, bone damage, and even death if humans ingest or inhale it. In the environment, cadmium bioaccumulates in organisms and ecosystems through plants absorbing it from soil and fish taking it up from water, and it is highly persistent and toxic to aquatic life and some animals and plants.

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Why is the pollutant a problem?

TOXICITY, POISONING AND CARCINOGENICITY

• Health effects: cadmium will enter the body if we breathe in


contaminated air, eat contaminated foods, or drink contaminated water.
– Kidney cancer, and more
– Lung damage
– Bones damage
– Death
 
• Enviromental effects: plants take up cadmium from the soil, fish and
shellfish take up cadmium from the water, etc.
– It is highly persistent in the environment; bioaccumulation in organisms and
ecosystems
– Toxicity to aquatic life, and to some animals and plants in general

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