Just saw an article in the Telegraph describing how Afghans are being poisoned through lead leaching from their pressure cookers, made of low grade, contaminated, recycled metal.
Research showing the same can be found elsewhere, and was reported on years ago, but this was the first I had heard and searching here didn’t show it as something discussed.
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Research showing the same can be found elsewhere, and was reported on years ago, but this was the first I had heard and searching here didn’t show it as something discussed.
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Public Health Advisory Related to Aluminum Afghan Kazan Pressure Cookers
BOSTON – May 16, 2023 – The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) has issued a public health advisory related to the danger of lead exposure from the use of certain traditional aluminum cookpots, known as Afghan pressure cookers or Kazan pressure cookers. The lead contamination was first...
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Investigating aluminum cookpots as a source of lead exposure in Afghan refugee children resettled in the United States - PubMed
Some aluminum cookware brought from Afghanistan by resettled families as well as cookpots available for purchase in the United States represent a previously unrecognized source of lead exposure.
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Evaluating metal cookware as a source of lead exposure - Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
We previously demonstrated that aluminum cookware brought from Afghanistan by resettled families as well as some aluminum cookware available for purchase in the United States represent a previously unrecognized source of lead exposure. However, the extent to which this cookware represents a...
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