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“For complete results from our tests, tap the link in our bio” Yet the link isn’t there. You have to search the web site. You usually link directly.
Sorry about that! https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/
What’s the FDA doing with this info? Manufacturers should be required to include a disclaimer. Or, better yet, the FDA should force the products to be pulled from the shelves. Eating a lower percentage cacao product is not a solution to dangerous chocolates being sold in stores. Is CR pushing for the manufacturers and retailers of the guilty products to remove their products from shelves? Clearly it is not inevitable to have the high heavy metal content because your testing showed that some brands did not.