I also discussed minimum health risk by Cd body burden (Kawada [2]), and there is an ethnic difference in Cd intake and smoking should also be considered for Cd body burden. Keywords: Cadmium; Dietary body burden; Health risk; Kidney EN Cadmium Dietary body burden Health risk Kidney 1823 1823 1 05/17/23 20230601 NES 230601 This comment refers to the article available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-022-03432-w.