Godines, Valeria,

Village's Fortunes Tied to Lead-Tainted Pots Used by Candy Industry. Valeria Godines and Jenifer B. McKim. - Orange County Register, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 56, Environment, 1522-3205; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. 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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Candy
Candy industry
Children--Mexico
Food contamination
Glazes
Lead poisoning in children
Pottery--Mexican
Women potters


Mexico--Economic conditions

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