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I was told as a child not to eat berries near roads due to being exposed to exhaust fumes, but never check if there is any science behind it.
by oldestofsports 11mo ago
I was told as a child not to eat berries near roads due to being exposed to exhaust fumes, but never check if there is any science behind it.
- Earw0rm 11mo agoThere was, due to lead compounds in vehicle exhaust. Nasty stuff. These days, tyre microplastics and diesel particulates are still a concern, but there's little hard science around the hazards of eating them in small quantities - there's microplastic in basically everything, to some degree, so you're not making it appreciably worse - and agricultural farm machinery is a worse diesel PM offender by far than a street's worth of modern cars.
- zeristor 11mo agoSome commodity chocolate is dried out along the ride side, some heavy metal settling on from exhaust. One would hope that more expensive chocolate would have a value chain to show that it’s been dried in a proper manner. Nothing beats random sampling though.