Cadmium poisoning is nasty business. The article mentions itai-itai disease in Japan (pain-pain). I’ve read about cases where certain Japanese women lost so much bone strength due to cadmium poisoning that their vertebrae began to collapse under the weight of their own spine. One woman eventually “shrank” something like 8 or 9 inches.
You are quite correct.
That said, does anyone suspect that the chinese would "waste" the grain?
I'm guessing that it the Cd will end up in various exported foods, perhaps after being fed to livestock or by being diluted with uncontaminated grain so the Cd levels are lower, but still measurable.
Oh, and if the rice is contaminated, what about wheat? (IIRC, china exports a lot of wheat gluten, etc.)
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