From Pure and Simple
P.O. Box 291
Middlesex, NJ 08846
METAL SOURCES
Aluminum: cookware, antacids, antiperspirants, aluminum cans, kitchen utensils,
paints, dental composites.
Arsenic: poisons, pigments, dyes, wood preservative, insecticides, wine, wellwater, coal burning, seafood (shellfish), treated lumber
Barium: explosives, filler in paper, paints, and plastics, radiography (contrast studies), dental composites
Cadmium: water from galvanized pipes, evaporated milk, shellfish, cigarette smoke, sewage sludge, paint, pigments, air pollution
Chromium: dyes, pigments, air pollution, dental crowns
Copper: copper plumbing, sewage sludge, beer, swimming pools, copper cookware, inorganic mineral supplements, dental crowns
Gold: dental fillings, jewelry, injections for arthritis
Iron: dyes, inks, paints, pigments, poor inorganic mineral supplements in food
Lead: car exhaust, paint, plumbing, canned food, hair dyes, newsprint, tap water
Manganese: ceramics, antiseptics, dyes, medicines, steel products, air pollution, water supply.
Mercury: dental fillings, mercury vapor lamps, seafood, polluted water, skin lightening creams, sewage sludge
Nickel: cigarettes, dental crowns
Silver: dental fillings, jewelry
Tin: canned foods
Titanium: pigments in paints, preservatives in medications, tap/well water, dental crowns, implants
Zinc: poor inorganic supplements in food
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