Cadmium intake and chronic kidney disease: Response to Kawada T

We would like to thank Dr Kawada for the interest in our study. Dr Kawada raised a critical point regarding the provisional tolerable monthly intake (PTMI) for cadmium (25  μg/kg body weight/month) proposed by WHO in 2013 [1]. We agree that the mean dietary cadmium intake in our sample is well below this PTMI. Several other studies in China also found that the mean dietary cadmium was below the PTMI and concluded that the health risk from dietary cadmium exposure of the general Chinese people was low [2,3].
Source: Clinical Nutrition - Category: Nutrition Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research