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Heavy metal in foods can cause cancer

More than 13,000 additional cases of bladder, lung and skin cancer every year in the U.S. can be attributed to eating inorganic arsenic. A study by the Society for Risk Analysis came up with the findings and found that rice, wheat and leafy green vegetables all carry a greater cancer risk than other foods.
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