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Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)
High levels of lead were found in a surprisingly large number of Bangladeshi kids in New York City — and in pregnant women in Bangladesh. Could there be a common cause?
But this is the story of how two women – a New York City detective and a California student – followed the data and helped crack a puzzling case that spanned the globe in the ongoing "crime" of lead poisoning. toggle caption Wudan Yan As Hore's team of lead detectives busily collected and analyzed samples from items found in the homes of New York's Bangladeshi families, a student in California stumbled on a similar mystery. He knew the processing steps intimately – from the boiling and drying of the root to polishing off the outer layer and then eventually grinding, all to make a brilliantly yellow powdered spice.
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