Our daughter is frequently snacking on chocolate up in her favorite tree, squirrel-like. Recent articles published by the New York Times and Consumer Reports have raised consumer awareness around the presence of heavy metals like lead and cadmium in chocolate. While these reports were news to ...
One lawsuit argues that Trader Joe's should have known there were traces of cadmium and lead in the chocolate. Instead, Trader Joe's allegedly decided to "ignore the health of the consuming public in pursuit of profit," thelawsuitfiled in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of N...
Study Finds Worrisome Levels of Lead and Cadmium in ChocolateEach year around Valentine's Day, I receive a small but steadystream of press releases touting...Perry, Susan
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A New York man filed a class action lawsuit against Pennsylvania-based Hershey for selling dark chocolate filled with lead and cadmium, according to reports.
Milk sweet had the highest Pb:Zn and Cd:Zn ratios of 0.99 and 0.40 respectively. For chocolates, the Emperor had the highest Pb:Zn (0.50) ratios and Trident had the highest Cd:Zn (0.57) ratios. The calculated percentage provisional tolerable weekly intake (%PTWI) of cadmium from ...
Observational studies have indicated that low-to-moderate exposure to cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), and mercury (Hg) adversely affects birth anthropometry, but results are inconclusive. The aim of this study was to elucidate potential impact on birth anthropometry of exposure to Cd, Pb, and Hg in...
Surprisingly, organic products were found to contain higher levels of lead and cadmium compared to nonorganic items. None of the products surpassed the maximum for arsenic. The findings suggest eating less chocolate as a means of limiting exposure, Leigh Frame, director of integrative medicine at ...
2.Then there’s very popular dark chocolates showing up high in lead and cadmium.Consumer Reportsmeasured the amount of heavy metals in 28 dark chocolate bars. They detected lead and cadmium inallof them. Many frequently reward themselves with “healthier” dark chocolate for its high antioxidants...
Though none of the kits exceeded any legal or regulatory limits for lead and cadmium, heavy metals were found in all of the kits. When compared against California’s maximum allowable dose level (MADL)—the most protective lead standards available in the absence of federal limits—five kits wo...