Rice contaminated with high levels of the toxic heavy metal cadmium, dubbed cadmium rice, is the latest food scandal in China to trigger public panic and anger among the country's consumers.

Cadmium is a chemical element with symbol Cd and atomic number 48.

Preparation Cadmium nitrate is prepared by dissolving cadmium metal or its oxide, hydroxide, or carbonate, in nitric acid followed by crystallization CdO 2HNO3 Cd(NO3)2 H2O CdCO3 2 HNO3 Cd(NO3)2 CO2 H2O Cd 4 HNO3 2 NO2 2 H2O Cd(NO3)2 Reactions Thermal dissociation at elevated temperatures produces cadmium oxide and oxides of nitrogen.

The food that contains cadmium is chronically poisoned food, which under normal circumstances will not lead to major food safety incidents.

In view of the recent exposure of rice containing excessive levels of cadmium, rice pollution has become the focus of attention for the whole country.

The Guangzhou Food and Drug Administration revealed on May 16 that eight out of 18 rice samples tested in local markets contained excessive levels of cadmium.

According to Global Times, a Nanjing Agricultural University research project in 2011 found that around 10 percent of rice sold across the nation contained excessive amounts of cadmium.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

The reason for poor quality has been overly high pesticide and heavy metals quantities cadmium, lead and arsenic, coupled with incomplete and unharmonized declarations on the original packing of food.

Therefore, prices could be low but not abnormally low.

The poor are caught in a complex poverty trap in which low income leads to low consumption, which in turn results in low capacity and low productivity.

Low inflation resulted from a combination of cheap supply and low demand.

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To stop the contamination from spreading, the local fire department had to add significant quantities of dissolved aluminum chloride, which binds to cadmium and settles on the river bottom. The toxic sediment will eventually be dredged.

Their poverty causes low farm productivity, and low farm productivity reinforces their poverty.

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Cadmium in rice usually comes from the soil where it grows, and the soil was polluted by mining and chemical wastes, Fan Zhihong, a food safety expert at China Agricultural University in Beijing, told the state run Global Times.

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The reasons for less than satisfactory quality of food were the increased levels of pesticides or heavy metals cadmium, lead and arsenic, while at the same time, the declarations on the original packing of the food were incomplete or non harmonized.

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