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ggm
805 days ago
Wouldn't that be the formaldehyde in embalming fluid? And mercury from amalgam fillings.
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kombookcha
805 days ago
Embalming is very rare in places like continental Europe, and large swathes of the non-western world has religious bans on embalming, so formaldehyde in graveyards is almost purely a problem in the anglosphere.
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positr0n
805 days ago
Also bioaccumulation of heavy metals.
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hulitu
805 days ago
Some claim is the preservative in food.
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