Shanghai experts find "cadmium poisoning" susceptible to people

cadmium is now considered a global pollutant, and in 1993 the International Agency for Research on Cancer listed cadmium as a human carcinogenAt present, the total amount of cadmium discharged into the environment from industrial waste in China is about 680 tons per year, and the production and use of cadmium causes the increasing environmental pollution of cadmium, and enters the human body through the food chainJin Tai professor of public health school of Fudan University, led by the metal toxicology team from "cadmium caused kidney damage", after 7 years of research completed the "metal sulfur protein, metal thiumoprotein antibodies and cadmium-inducedhealthdamage" research found that normal people come into contact with cadmium, the body metal sulfur protein content will increase, it is combined with cadmium, can reduce cadmium toxicity to the human body;The team applied molecular biology methods to screen more than 800 "environmental cadmium contacts" and more than 100 "occupational cadmium contact seis" and successfully detected "cadmium poisoning" susceptible populationsExperts called on the relevant departments should use molecular biology methods for cadmium contacts screening to protect susceptible populations and avoid "cadmium poisoning." (Lin Yingying Sun Guogen)