Flaxseed producer with no cadmium?

Anyone knows of such a a producer of flaxseed that has no or very little cadmium?

I really miss eating a daily tablespoon of grinded flax, I stopped that since the health ministry warned
about cadmium in flaxseed. In fact, I investigated this and found out that the local organic producer
of flaxseed has a 0.49 mg cadmium per whole kilogram .. thats 490 mcg, quite alot compared to other
grains/seeds/nuts. If only there was a place that could grow'em clean!

There is a company called Northern Edge who grow their flaxseed in Canada.... it is claimed that this contains little or no cadmium

Yeah I saw NE, but could not find any contact information or even a webpage of theirs. I like to get their numbers of Cd in their product.

I am getting abit confused now regarding this cadmium warning .. since the average organic flaxseed contains 490 mcg Cd per Kg, and upper limit is 70 mcg per day, eating just a tablespoon 5 gram is nowehere near this limit .. You would have top eat around 250 gr per day flaxseed to reach the limit for daily Cd intake.

Also it the exact uptake is dependent on other minerals lacking, which is present in flax, so the seed themselves prevent the uptake ..

The actual level of intake which results from food ingestion varies as a function of multiple factors. For example, certain crops (e.g., sunflowers) and shellfish contain naturally elevated amounts of cadmium. Individuals WHO consume large amounts of these materials might thus at first seem to be at increased risk. However, recent studies have demonstrated that foods which are naturally enriched in cadmium are also enriched in substances which inhibit the uptake of cadmium into the body. Thus, individuals WHO ingest large amounts of sunflower seeds may ingest up to 1 00 µg cadmium per day, yet these individuals do not have levels of cadmium in blood or urine which are higher than individuals with far lower levels of cadmium intake (Reeves et al. 1997). Similarly, consumption of a diet rich in shellfish can double the intake of dietary cadmium without producing significant impacts upon blood cadmium (Vahter et al. 1996) These studies illustrate that the cadmium content of food is just one of a number of factors which determines the actual uptake of cadmium into the body. Indeed, recent studies (Vahter et al. 1996) have suggested that overall nutritional status is a more important determinant of cadmium uptake into the body than is the actual amount of cadmium ingested. For example, women subsisting upon a vegetarian diet and with reduced iron stores have increased uptake of ingested cadmium. For these women, iron deficiency is a more important determinant of cadmium uptake than is the actual amount of cadmium ingested.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has established a provisional tolerable weekly intake (PTWI) for cadmium at 7 µg/kg of body weight This PTWI weekly value corresponds to a daily tolerable intake level of 70 µg of cadmium for the average 70-kg man and 60 µg of cadmium per day for the average 60-kg woman. Clearly,

Bioavailability of Cadmium from Shellfish and Mixed Diet in Women
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Marie Vahter, Marika Berglund, Barbro Nermell and Agneta Åkesson

Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Box 210, S-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden

Received 6 December 1994;
accepted 11 July 1995. ;
Available online 22 April 2002.

Abstract

Dietary intake and uptake of cadmium (Cd) were studied in nonsmoking women, 20–50 years of age, consuming a mixed diet low in shellfish (N= 34) or with shellfish once a week or more (N= 17). Duplicate diets were collected during 4 consecutive days for the determination of Cd content. The women kept detailed dietary records, and the intake of energy and various nutrients was calculated. The shellfish diets (median 22.3 μg Cd/day) contained twice as much Cd as the mixed diets (median 10.5 μg Cd/day;p< 0.0001). Cadmium in feces corresponded to 100 and 99% of that in duplicates of shellfish diets and mixed diets, respectively, indicating a low average absorption of the dietary Cd. In spite of the differences in the daily intake of Cd, there was no statistically significant difference in the concentrations of Cd in blood (B-Cd, shellfish group 0.25 μg/liter, mixed diet group 0.23 μg/liter) or urine (U-Cd, 0.10 μg Cd/liter in both groups). This indicates a lower absorption of Cd in the shellfish group than in the mixed diet group or a difference in the kinetics. A higher gastrointestinal absorption of Cd in the mixed diet group could partly be explained by lower body iron stores as measured by the concentrations of serum ferritin (S-fer, median 18 μg/liter, compared to 31 μg/liter in the shellfish group). In the mixed diet group, S-fer was negatively correlated with B-Cd and the main determining factor for B-Cd besides U-Cd in the multiple regression analysis, indicating an increased absorption of Cd at low body iron stores. When women with S-fer exceeding 20 μg/liter were compared, the higher dietary intake of Cd in the shellfish group compared to the mixed diet group (24 versus 10 μg/day) resulted in higher B-Cd (0.26 versus 0.16 μg/liter), although not in proportion to the difference in Cd intake. Thus, there seems to be differences in the bioavailability and/or kinetics of dietary Cd related to the type of diet. This is, to our knowledge, the first study where the influence of various types of diets and nutritional factors on the intake and uptake of cadmium in human subjects has been studied.
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Your right, NE doesnt have a website.......i believe the company that manufactures and distributes their products is Randolph and James Flax Mills Ltd, their contact email is rjflaxmill@sasktel.net