Excessive cadmium levels found in foundry workers

Cadmium spare from Tak waste is still missing, according to the research.

Excessive cadmium levels found in foundry workers
On Sunday, a police officer shows bags filled with copper waste discovered at a Samut Sakhon warehouse in the Muang district. ( Police photo )

As authorities continue to check for contaminants in two provinces, high copper levels have been discovered in workers at the Samut Sakhon state foundries, where cadmium spend was first discovered last week.

Health officials discovered unsafe amounts of copper in eight workers at two foundries in tambon Bang Nam Jued in Muang district, according to Samut Sakhon government Phon Damtham on Monday. &nbsp,

Some of the blood samples taken from 11 workers at the two foundries next Thursday that contained cadmium waste that had been mishandled revealed the great residual levels.

None of the workers, according to him, had any copper poison symptoms, but all 11 of them were taken to Samut Sakhon Hospital on Monday for evaluation and treatment.

He had also instructed that eight different foundry staff remain examined at the same hospital as him.

Officials had &nbsp, obtain samples of water and food from the vicitinity of the industries for testing for copper pollution.

Specimens were also taken from 20 people who reside three kilometers away from the storehouse, according to Health Permanent Secretary Opas Kankawinpong, and from those who work at the same one in Chon Buri’s Ban Bueng city.

One young child was found suffering from severe diarrhea, he said.

In a year, according to Dr. Opas, the results of the area’s wastewater samples will be known.

Dr Woraya Lueang- on, disease power chairman in Chon Buri, said cobalt contamination of the environment may cause acute and chronic headaches, exhaustion, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and irritation of the nose, throat and windpipe.

Following the recent discovery of 8, 474 kilograms of copper spend at factories and stores in Samut Sakhon and Chon Buri, health concerns have grown. According to officials, it was one of 13, 832 tons of copper tailings that had been allegedly fraudulently sold from a garbage in Tak province. They said 5, 358 tonnes&nbsp, had yet to be tracked down.

Srettha Thavisin, the prime minister, stated in a social media post that the original analysis found irregularities in the transportation of the copper waste between Tak and Samut Sakhon.