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France's cadmium rate in earth of 0.25 mg/kg is only slightly higher than the EU average of 0.20, according to a 2024 study of topsoils in the bloc.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Healthy topsoils are also seriously diminished, as are agricultural lands, converted to other uses, and global food supplies, which are ever more expensive.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2010

Other sites may have gooey, very fine clay topsoils, almost inevitably with gooey, very fine clay subsoils as well.

From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Solomon, Steve