Heavy Metals in Red Hook NY

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

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