C moa wrote:The current thresholds are 25µg / liter. It is still worrying when you know that lead accumulates in tissues.
lead = heavy metal like mercury, uranium, cesium, plutonium (ingested like lead or inhaled for the others).
they fix themselves as you say in the tissues because the human body is not intended to eliminate them ... but uranium cesium plutonium and other waste from industry, nuclear
there is only apple pectin to eliminate them in the intestinal lumen.
the same pectin that our grandmothers made for jams, there are recipes, to do with organic apples of course, a real medicine. when you make a pie or something, you have to recover the skin and the seeds. there are also in the area I think ...
you knew it ?
in nature it is the shells that retain heavy metals, like oysters for example to name a few, when they are touched during wild degassing of boats ... they can be used to filter water as do brita filters for example, by crushing seashells, or conch shells (found in the earth near my home) ;-)