Cadmium Cd

Atomic Number: 48
Atomic Weight: 112.411
Half-life: 48.5 mins to 14.1 years

Source:

• Burning of fossil fuels, tires, cigarette paper smoke, plants making batteries, coating, plastics, cadmium yellow paint, foods, commercial fertilizer sludge, shellfish.

Adverse Effects:

• Stores in kidney and liver
• Hypertension, peripheral vascular disease
• COPD, emphysema, chronic renal tubular disease, osteomalacia and osteoporosis, Itai-Itai disease (syndrome of severe bone deformities and chronic renal disease)
• Lung and possible prostate cancer