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Consumer Reports finds more lead and cadmium in chocolate, urges change at Hershey
(www.reuters.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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There's more lead allowed in a liter of drinking water in the US than a serving of any of the chocolates being reported, as far as I can find. (15 micrograms per liter.) Provided nobody's eating a few dozen bars of chocolate in a single sitting I can't imagine accumulating enough to cause acute harm from the chocolate alone. Chasing down Hershey, Nestle et al to hold them accountable is great, but in terms of toxic metals we'd have more success and greater impact lighting up the news about water supplies.
Just mildly frustrated that I continue to see talk about chocolate while drinking water is a necessity and consumed in greater amounts daily but rarely gets reported outside of extreme cases like Flint.
Sure, but getting that same amount of lead from water as well as each type of food you eat is going to add together.
Sure, but you can just not eat Hershey bars. It's really such a trivial concern when compared to the drinking water for entire populations.
For one, it's not an either-or thing. Reporting on lead in chocolate isn't detracting from awareness of lead in water.
And second: that. There's lead in this chocolate? Okay I won't eat this chocolate. Lead intake reduced.
Keep in mind that granular activated carbon doesn't do a great job removing heavy metals. Block activated carbon is where it's at or, better yet, reverse osmosis.
EWG did some testing of various consumer level water filters and published a report that was recently in the news for filtering of PFAS 'forever chemicals'
https://www.ewg.org/research/getting-forever-chemicals-out-drinking-water-ewgs-guide-pfas-water-filters
While there were higher performers I went with the epic filter which has a lower cost over time. I also just use a regular white Brita as a prefilter.
Of course there's other options like under sink reverse osmosis filters if you got time and money for all that.