Cadmium Cd Atomic Number: 48 Atomic Weight: 112.411 Half life: 48.5 mins-14.1yrs ______________________________________________________________________________ Sources: - 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