Last update Jan. 20, 2014

Cadmium

Likely Compatibility

Fairly safe. Mild or unlikely adverse effects. Compatible under certain circumstances. Follow-up recommended. Read Commentary.

Environmental pollutant. Heavy metal produced by zinc and charcoal mining industry, water plumbing, tobacco smoking, and burning of residual material.

Benefits of breastfeeding are largely more important than risk related to the presence of mild level environment pollutants in human milk, in many instances, they are at lower content than those found in cow’s milk or other food. (Codex alimentarius FAO-WHO).

Alternatives

We do not have alternatives for Cadmium.

Suggestions made at e-lactancia are done by APILAM team of health professionals, and are based on updated scientific publications. It is not intended to replace the relationship you have with your doctor but to compound it. The pharmaceutical industry contraindicates breastfeeding, mistakenly and without scientific reasons, in most of the drug data sheets.

Jose Maria Paricio, Founder & President of APILAM/e-Lactancia

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José María Paricio, founder of e-lactancia.

Pharmacokinetics

Variable Value Unit
M/P ratio 0.1 -

References

  1. INSHT - Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo. Límites de exposición profesional para agentes químicos en España. - 2024 Full text (link to original source) Full text (in our servers)
  2. OMS. Grupo de estudio de la OMS sobre reglamentación de los productos de tabaco: informe sobre la base científica de la reglamentación de los productos de tabaco: cuarto informe de un grupo de estudio de la OMS. Informe técnico. 2012 Full text (link to original source) Full text (in our servers)
  3. WHO. WHO study group on tobacco product regulation : report on the scientifi c basis of tobacco product regulation: fourth report of a WHO study group. Technical report. 2012 Full text (link to original source) Full text (in our servers)
  4. Comisión Europea. REGLAMENTO (CE) No 1272/2008 DEL PARLAMENTO EUROPEO Y DEL CONSEJO de 16 de diciembre de 2008 sobre clasificación, etiquetado y envasado de sustancias y mezclas. Diario oficial de la Unión Europea. 2008 Full text (link to original source) Full text (in our servers)
  5. - REGULATION (EC) No 1272/2008 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures. Official Journal of the European Union. 2008 Full text (link to original source)
  6. Ursinyova M, Masanova V. Cadmium, lead and mercury in human milk from Slovakia. Food Addit Contam. 2005 Abstract

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