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Since the early 1990’s, florists in the United States have been chronically exposed to contaminated flowers imported from other countries with little to no pesticide regulations, as well as from industry workplace practices. Many pesticides and fungicides contain heavy metals, such as mercury, arsenic, cadmium, lead and silver. Chronic exposure to heavy metals from pesticides and fungicides can result in neurological and organ damage. A wide range of symptoms, such as vertigo, tremors, metal taste, excess salivation, memory loss, and chronic fatigue, defy ordinary diagnosis because doctors are not trained to consider heavy metal toxicity as a possibility. Florists with many years of experience, dating especially from the nineties, are often misdiagnosed and never know that their problems are due to high levels of heavy metals in their bodies.