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Should one be careful importing vegetables/spices/tomatoes/nopales/prickly pears from Latin America, given potential heavy metal/pesticide/microplastic/protozoa/worm contamination?

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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4412738

https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/lead-contamination-in-hot-sauces/

Especially important b/c tomatoes are one of the two foods that decrease Mike Lustgarten's aging rate, and nopales seem *especially* healthy, everything else equal

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