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[โ€“] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/

Annoyingly, instead of saying they were going to address the problem, Tony's response was "it's in the soil" and CR used "California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)" standards. Which ignores that their chocolate is still higher in lead than some other brands.

https://tonyschocolonely.com/blogs/other/a-small-update-on-health-and-safety-and-heavy-metals

[โ€“] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But what do you want them to do? It is literally in the soil and cocoa plants are accumulators for heavy metals.

Furthermore they aim for only working with slave free cocoa plantations. So they are limited in who they can buy from. Those two things together probably don't leave a lot of possible sources of cocoa.

[โ€“] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apples and rice in the US were found to be contaminated with arsenic from the soil. Farms are moved, soil is treated, processing is changed.

Here what can be done for Chocolate:

https://www.asyousow.org/blog/2022/8/17/new-report-explains-simple-safe-and-low-cost-solutions-to-reduce-levels-of-lead-and-cadmium-in-chocolate

Some brands of chocolate do not have high lead. It's not a necessary part of chocolate production.

[โ€“] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks for that link, didn't know that lead is mostly from human sources.