Toxic veggies found in NYC’s community gardens : Three more sources included in the thread
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Herbs and vegetables grown in New York City community gardens are loaded with lead and other toxic metals, a startling state study shows.
Tainted vegetables — some sold in city markets — were found in five of seven plots tested, according to data obtained from the study by The Post through the Freedom of Information Law.
Most of the root vegetables sampled far exceeded safe thresholds for lead, with the most toxic being a carrot at the Hart to Hart community garden in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
It contained 1.95 parts per million of the toxic metal — nearly 20 times the level considered safe, according to state Health Department data.
‘You’re playing Russian roulette with this… There is no known safe level of lead exposure.’
- Howard Mielke
“If they don’t know what the level of lead is in the garden, it would be advisable not to grow root crops,” said study co-author Murray McBride, a Cornell University professor of soil chemistry.
Lead in some herbs — for which there is no available safety standard — was off the charts. Dried basil from the Classon-Fulgate garden in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, had 11 parts per million of lead. Dried thyme at Hart to Hart was found with 18 parts per million of lead.
http://nypost.com/2014/11/16/toxic-veggies-found-in-nycs-community-gardens/
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