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Science 4 September 1970:
Vol. 169. no. 3949, pp. 989 - 991
DOI: 10.1126/science.169.3949.989
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Cadmium Toxicity Decreased by Dietary Ascorbic Acid Supplements

M. R. Spivey Fox 1 and Bert E. Fry Jr. 1

1 Division of Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D.C. 20204

Feeding the environmental toxicant cadmium to young Japanese quail for 4 weeks produced growth retardation, severe anemia, low concentrations of iron in the liver, and high concentrations of cadmium in the liver. Dietary ascorbic acid supplements almost completely prevented the anemia and improved the growth rate but did not markedly alter concentrations of iron or cadmium in the liver.

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