Small amounts of tungsten are released into the environment during the production of this metal. Tungsten has been found to than eventually contaminate water systems and agricultural land. For these reasons tungsten has been identified as a toxicant of great emerging concern.
Lead author of the research, Dr. Jessica Tyrrell, has expressed concerns that human exposure to tungsten is likely to increase. Tyrrell has suggested that it is important to determine more clearly how tungsten is ending up in our bodies. Dr. Nicholas Osborne, another one of the
research paper's authors, has commented about the possibility that the emergence of tungsten and other new materials as toxins is leading to the accumulation of a complex chemical cocktail
in our bodies.
It is my professional opinion that the concerns raised by the authors of this research paper should be taken seriously. I have witnessed increased concerns of people in dealing with our increasingly polluted environment in dealing with such issues as an increase in the incidence of deadly lung cancer. The emergence of new toxins, such as tungsten, associated with other serious health problems such as stroke, should raise a red flag insofar as compelling us to more carefully determine exactly what toxins people are being exposed to and in what manners
this exposure can be lowered.
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