The following represents heavy metals in Red Hook NY and their common sources:

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Red Hook NY Heavy Metals:

  • Aluminum – cookware, antacids, antiperspirants, aluminum cans, kitchen utensils, paints, dental composites
  • Arsenic – poisons, pigments, dyes, wood preservatives, insecticides, wine, well water, coal burning, seafood (shellfish), treated lumber
  • Antimony – medications, pigments
  • Cadmium – water from galvanized pipes, evaporated milk, shellfish, cigarette smoke, sewage sludge, pigments, air pollution
  • Chromium – dyes, pigments, air pollution, dental crowns
  • Copper – copper plumbing, sewage sludge, beer, swimming pools, copper cookware, inorganic mineral supplements, dental crowns
  • Gold – dental fillings, jewelry, injections for arthritis
  • Iron – dyes, inks, paints, pigments, poor inorganic mineral supplements in food
  • Lead – car exhaust, paint, plumbing, canned food, hair dyes, newsprint, tap water
  • Manganese – ceramics, antiseptics, dyes, medicines, steel products, air pollution, water supply
  • Mercury – dental fillings, mercury vapor lamps, seafood, polluted water, skin lightening creams, sewage sludge, vaccinations
  • Nickel – cigarettes, dental crowns
  • Silver – dental fillings, jewelry
  • Tin – canned foods
  • Titanium – pigments in paints, preservatives in medications, tap / well water, dental crowns, implants
  • Zinc – poor inorganic supplements in food