linkedin post 2013-10-24 06:10:42

FOOD AND MERCURY. “In 1971-72, a major epidemic occurred in Iraq in which 6,530 persons were hospitalized and almost 500 died. Several nations shipped wheat grain intended for planting to Iraq. The seeds had been treated with a methylmercury-containing fungicide. The seeds were also dyed red to serve as a warning. Unfortunately, the warnings on the bags were in Spanish, because some of the grain had originated in Mexico, and the skull and crossbones, recognized by westerners as meaning poison, meant nothing to the Iraqis.”

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