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Toxins in herbal medicines 'can harm our health' [1]

People who take unregulated complementary medicines are at a higher risk of being contaminated by heavy metals, a medical scientist has warned.

Publication Date: 
15/09/2015
Medical Express [2]
Tags:
Pesticides And Toxins [3], Toxins [4], Heavy Metals [5], Herbal Medcine [6], Health Effects [7], Arsenic [8], Mercury [9], Lead [10]
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