Locally made aluminium cookware can leach lead into food, icddr,b and Stanford study finds
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Lead was released from every pot tested, whether new or used. During the first cooking in new pots, rice contained up to 305 micrograms of lead per kilogram, while khichuri contained up to 420 micrograms per kilogram.
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[Claude] Report 2 is a fuller account of the same icddr,b and Stanford study on lead leaching from locally made aluminium cookware, adding specific figures that do not contradict Report 1.
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