Heavy Metals in the Cartagena Field: Alert on Lead and Cadmium in Lettuces

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Ecologists in Action has expressed their growing concern about the presence of heavy metals in the Campo de Cartagena after a doctoral thesis of 2022 that warns of the accumulation of lead and cadmium in lettuce grown in contaminated agricultural soils. The organization denounces that, four years after scientific warnings, no clear control measures have been applied nor adequately informed to citizens. Heavy metals in the Campo de Cartagena: con…

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The Ministry of Agriculture of the Government of Murcia has in its hands a report that has only partially come to light, and it reveals an open secret, that the Cartagena Field would be contaminated by high levels of heavy metals that far exceed the limits allowed to grow. In addition to exposing dangerously the farmers and neighbors of the area, it is demonstrated that these elements are transferred to vegetables, such as lettuce grown in that …