{"id":89574,"date":"2026-05-23T20:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89574"},"modified":"2026-05-23T20:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:24:06","slug":"public-health-time-bomb-how-france-allowed-cadmium-to-poison-its-crops-and-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/23\/public-health-time-bomb-how-france-allowed-cadmium-to-poison-its-crops-and-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Public health time bomb\u2019: How France allowed cadmium to poison its crops and soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA229am5.img?w=768&amp;h=432&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A wheat field in Normandy pictured during the 2025 Tour de France. Wheat-based everyday foods such as bread and cereals are among the most heavily contaminated.\" width=\"658\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>French residents are three to four times more likely to register unsafe levels of cadmium in their bodies than their European counterparts, ingesting dangerous amounts of the carcinogenic Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>French residents are three to four times more likely to register unsafe levels of cadmium in their bodies than their European counterparts,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cadmium.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89576,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89574\/revisions\/89576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}