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Charlie Pridham wrote:

In Tesco yesterday I noticed that their premium parsnips claimed to be
grown in Mineraly enriched soil.
Any ideas whay this could be other than soil with fretilizer in it?

Soil contaminated by heavy metals?

That was my thought! we are not supposed to eat any root veg from our
garden due to heavy metal and arsenic in the sub soil so not perhaps the
best way to advertise veg!!

Interesting. You are lucky that you are in the wet West, then,
because breathing soil dust can't be good, either. Incidentally,
I did a recent look to see if anyone had found out how arsenic
is essential to animal metabolism and it seems to be still a
mystery; it is also quite possible that arsenic deficiency may be
an undiagnosed problem in some cases.



Regards,
Nick Maclaren.