However, ailments such as cadmium, lead and mercury induced damage to the central nervous system, sterility and deformities, impairment of the immune system, damage to the respiratory system, liver poisoning and irreversible chronic poisoning are all on the rise. In relation to the chemical substances that are increasingly coming to permeate our daily lives, people are gradually coming to realize the risks they face from heavy metals.
但鎘米引起的「痛痛症」，汞、鉛造成的中樞神經損傷，而不孕、畸型兒、免疫系統機能衰退、呼吸器官受損、肝中毒等不可復原的慢性毒害發生率不斷提高，日漸被證實與廣泛滲透在日常生活中的化學物質有關，人們對重金屬的危害遂也日有「體悟」。