Village's Fortunes Tied to Lead-Tainted Pots Used by Candy Industry. Valeria Godines and Jenifer B. McKim.
by Godines, Valeria; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 56Environment. Publisher: Orange County Register, 2004ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Candy | Candy industry | Children -- Mexico | Food contamination | Glazes | Lead poisoning in children | Mexico -- Economic conditions | Pottery -- Mexican | Women pottersDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Griselda Maximo Guzman dunks her slender, bare arms into the bucket to stir the yellow glaze called greta. It looks like cake batter. Pregnant and a little tired on this crisp fall day, she dips hundreds of small clay pots into the bucket. The glaze is mostly lead, a poison that can cause miscarriage or brain damage when ingested or absorbed through the skin. But this is how Maximo's mother glazed pots. And her grandmother...Nearly everybody has done it this way in Santa Fe de la Laguna, a village in the central state of Michaocan. This is how they've made a living for centuries. It's also how the village has been contaminated, becoming the saddest stop along the trail of the $620 million Mexican candy industry." (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER) This article examines the pottery industry in Santa Fe and notes the role the pottery plays in poisoning those who eat Mexican candies made in them.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Village's Fortunes Tied to Lead-Tainted Pots Used by Candy Industry, May 4, 2004; pp. n.p..
"Griselda Maximo Guzman dunks her slender, bare arms into the bucket to stir the yellow glaze called greta. It looks like cake batter. Pregnant and a little tired on this crisp fall day, she dips hundreds of small clay pots into the bucket. The glaze is mostly lead, a poison that can cause miscarriage or brain damage when ingested or absorbed through the skin. But this is how Maximo's mother glazed pots. And her grandmother...Nearly everybody has done it this way in Santa Fe de la Laguna, a village in the central state of Michaocan. This is how they've made a living for centuries. It's also how the village has been contaminated, becoming the saddest stop along the trail of the $620 million Mexican candy industry." (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER) This article examines the pottery industry in Santa Fe and notes the role the pottery plays in poisoning those who eat Mexican candies made in them.
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