01-11-2010, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Cadmium has been used as a cheap substitute for chrome on bicycles and toys forever. That's what you see peeling off handlebars.
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"There's nothing positive that you can say about this metal. It's a poison," said Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and toxicologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On the CDC's priority list of 275 most hazardous substances in the environment, cadmium ranks No. 7.
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