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Should we worry about arsenic in baby cereal and drinking water?

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imageWhat's in that baby cereal?Baby via www.shutterstock.com.

Even though most people don’t know much about chemicals in general or poisons in particular, virtually everyone knows that arsenic is bad. In the first century, arsenic was already known to be a deadly poison . However, it was the Borgias in the 14th and 15th centuries who perfected...

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