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> Watch them institute them in full once protests start back up.
[ "China is getting problems: More countries will want negative tests before allowing entrance from China.", ">\n\nIs this because the rules work and it is making the rest of China look bad?", ">\n\nRules in HK were always a lot more lax than the mainland, and they had a really big wave of infections around Feb with omicron. So for most of the year HK has just had a steady stream of infections, basically already at the \"living with covid\" stage so the rules that were still in place were kind of pointless.", ">\n\nThat’s one way to have biological warfare.", ">\n\nIs that why the west went about business as usual when omicron was first discovered?", ">\n\nDon't let logic get in the way of their xenophobia.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck ever. Part of the issue and the main reason China kept the lockdowns in place is the vaccine they developed just isn't effective. Studies put it's effectiveness at 1/3rd of the effectiveness of western vaccines. China had mandatory vaccinations the west didn't. In most western counties though they experienced some form of lockdown they never experienced anything near what China has done and while lockdowns work to an extent you need an effective vaccine to get you out of a permanent lockdown. The fear now is China spreading a new variant that makes western vaccines non-effective and putting the world back to square one or worse. Also Russian vaccines weren't anywhere near as effective as western ones but Russia has cut itself off from the rest of the world via the Ukraine war and people are more likely to die from combat than COVID. In the coming decades Russia will face a horrible population crisis with the loss of so many due to disease and war.", ">\n\nThat is a crazy amount of misinformation in one comment.", ">\n\nsays the guy who only comments on covid news articles", ">\n\nI can see no possible downside to this, none at all...", ">\n\nOkay I guess I haven't been following that closely. How did their situation get so bad when I thought they had the most restrictive covid/lock down procedures?", ">\n\nHK had different rules than China at large.\nChina manufactured their own vaccine, and it wasn't very effective.\nChina also instituted very long, draconian lockdowns, and eventually people broke and started rioting, ending said lockdowns.\nChina is now a covid shit storm." ]
>
[ "China is getting problems: More countries will want negative tests before allowing entrance from China.", ">\n\nIs this because the rules work and it is making the rest of China look bad?", ">\n\nRules in HK were always a lot more lax than the mainland, and they had a really big wave of infections around Feb with omicron. So for most of the year HK has just had a steady stream of infections, basically already at the \"living with covid\" stage so the rules that were still in place were kind of pointless.", ">\n\nThat’s one way to have biological warfare.", ">\n\nIs that why the west went about business as usual when omicron was first discovered?", ">\n\nDon't let logic get in the way of their xenophobia.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck ever. Part of the issue and the main reason China kept the lockdowns in place is the vaccine they developed just isn't effective. Studies put it's effectiveness at 1/3rd of the effectiveness of western vaccines. China had mandatory vaccinations the west didn't. In most western counties though they experienced some form of lockdown they never experienced anything near what China has done and while lockdowns work to an extent you need an effective vaccine to get you out of a permanent lockdown. The fear now is China spreading a new variant that makes western vaccines non-effective and putting the world back to square one or worse. Also Russian vaccines weren't anywhere near as effective as western ones but Russia has cut itself off from the rest of the world via the Ukraine war and people are more likely to die from combat than COVID. In the coming decades Russia will face a horrible population crisis with the loss of so many due to disease and war.", ">\n\nThat is a crazy amount of misinformation in one comment.", ">\n\nsays the guy who only comments on covid news articles", ">\n\nI can see no possible downside to this, none at all...", ">\n\nOkay I guess I haven't been following that closely. How did their situation get so bad when I thought they had the most restrictive covid/lock down procedures?", ">\n\nHK had different rules than China at large.\nChina manufactured their own vaccine, and it wasn't very effective.\nChina also instituted very long, draconian lockdowns, and eventually people broke and started rioting, ending said lockdowns.\nChina is now a covid shit storm.", ">\n\nWatch them institute them in full once protests start back up." ]
I wonder what his motive was. Seems so random and heartless.
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> A lot of the victim’s names appear to be Hispanic. Seems like he was a racist fuck.
[ "I wonder what his motive was. Seems so random and heartless." ]
> I was thinking the same thing
[ "I wonder what his motive was. Seems so random and heartless.", ">\n\nA lot of the victim’s names appear to be Hispanic. Seems like he was a racist fuck." ]
> 70+ Jail and no breakfast
[ "I wonder what his motive was. Seems so random and heartless.", ">\n\nA lot of the victim’s names appear to be Hispanic. Seems like he was a racist fuck.", ">\n\nI was thinking the same thing" ]
>
[ "I wonder what his motive was. Seems so random and heartless.", ">\n\nA lot of the victim’s names appear to be Hispanic. Seems like he was a racist fuck.", ">\n\nI was thinking the same thing", ">\n\n70+ Jail and no breakfast" ]
Can we not have a third Congolese war. Many people don’t know but since WW2 the second Congolese war is the deadliest and is known as the “African world war”
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[ "Can we not have a third Congolese war.\nMany people don’t know but since WW2 the second Congolese war is the deadliest and is known as the “African world war”" ]
> The 2020s have really just been a fucking mess all over the world…
[ "Can we not have a third Congolese war.\nMany people don’t know but since WW2 the second Congolese war is the deadliest and is known as the “African world war”", ">\n\nThis article was originally published 2 months ago and may contain out of date information. \nThe original publication date was November 11th, 2022. As per /r/worldnews/wiki submissions should be to articles published within the last week.\n \n  \n^(This bot finds outdated articles. It's impossible to be 100% accurate on every site, send me a message if you notice an error or would like this bot added to your subreddit. You can also download my) ^(Chrome Extension) ^(if you'd like to see publish dates added to all article links on reddit.)\n^(Send Feedback) ^(|) ^(Github - Bot) ^(|) ^(Github - Chrome Extension)" ]
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[ "Can we not have a third Congolese war.\nMany people don’t know but since WW2 the second Congolese war is the deadliest and is known as the “African world war”", ">\n\nThis article was originally published 2 months ago and may contain out of date information. \nThe original publication date was November 11th, 2022. As per /r/worldnews/wiki submissions should be to articles published within the last week.\n \n  \n^(This bot finds outdated articles. It's impossible to be 100% accurate on every site, send me a message if you notice an error or would like this bot added to your subreddit. You can also download my) ^(Chrome Extension) ^(if you'd like to see publish dates added to all article links on reddit.)\n^(Send Feedback) ^(|) ^(Github - Bot) ^(|) ^(Github - Chrome Extension)", ">\n\nThe 2020s have really just been a fucking mess all over the world…" ]
This is not news, this is just everyday Turkey
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> Doing propaganda with ww2 footages as Turkey used chemical weapons in Syria then getting jailed Suprise Pikachu face •o•
[ "This is not news, this is just everyday Turkey" ]
> This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot) Fincanci told the presiding judge in the second week of her trial that Erdogan's comments made an impartial hearing impossible. "If I am a terrorist, I wonder what organisation I am a terrorist of," Fincanci told the court. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued a joint call with five other organisations for Fincanci's release pending her trial. Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Fincanci^#1 terrorist^#2 organisation^#3 rights^#4 Turkish^#5
[ "This is not news, this is just everyday Turkey", ">\n\nDoing propaganda with ww2 footages as Turkey used chemical weapons in Syria then getting jailed\nSuprise Pikachu face •o•" ]
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[ "This is not news, this is just everyday Turkey", ">\n\nDoing propaganda with ww2 footages as Turkey used chemical weapons in Syria then getting jailed\nSuprise Pikachu face •o•", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nFincanci told the presiding judge in the second week of her trial that Erdogan's comments made an impartial hearing impossible.\n\"If I am a terrorist, I wonder what organisation I am a terrorist of,\" Fincanci told the court.\nAmnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued a joint call with five other organisations for Fincanci's release pending her trial.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Fincanci^#1 terrorist^#2 organisation^#3 rights^#4 Turkish^#5" ]
I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!
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> Then where will I get my daily requirement of lead?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!" ]
> American here, just lick a wall
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?" ]
> Or just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall" ]
> Or any major American city
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk" ]
> Eh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. Chicago is another story though
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city" ]
> Per capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though" ]
> Hence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US." ]
> It would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country" ]
> If you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. There’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. You have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous." ]
> Wait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe." ]
> I would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?" ]
> It’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. 21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it" ]
> Thanks for the regulatory knowledge :)
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements." ]
> Happy to help!
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)" ]
> And I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!" ]
> Cadmi-yummy
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?" ]
> Consumer Reports: We used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ... FDA: The FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ... And for what it's worth: The FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level. Per CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce. Also note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy" ]
> Because some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. Can’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar." ]
> It's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else. There's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh." ]
> It’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC. The metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa. There was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown." ]
> So that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…" ]
> Maybe it had Anthrax in it?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth." ]
> Slow clap
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?" ]
> Reduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap" ]
> Cocoa farmers hate them!
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!" ]
> So was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!" ]
> The real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?" ]
> r/unexpectedthegoodplace?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way." ]
> that line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?" ]
> Oooh, didn't know that!
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol" ]
> It would be super nice to have a functional FDA.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!" ]
> Got defunded by you know who
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA." ]
> Not that the new administration has fixed it.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who" ]
> Even the worst idiots can break things To be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on But it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it." ]
> That explains my declining... What are we talking about again?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth" ]
> Idk but I could go for some chocolate right now.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?" ]
> I would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now." ]
> Hey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate. Two great tastes that taste great together...
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury." ]
> Hersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together..." ]
> This is a clever joke. Thank you 😂
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?" ]
> Hershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂" ]
> Yes, many in USA doesn’t either.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU." ]
> Calling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. I love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either." ]
> Why is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that." ]
> "Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'".
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is." ]
> Better than alt rocks, I guess.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\"." ]
> What a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess." ]
> So I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering." ]
> There will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?" ]
> What will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks." ]
> 🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?" ]
> Call it heavy metal 🤘🏻 But is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶" ]
> Heavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?" ]
> All that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band" ]
> Unwrap it first please.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?" ]
> Let him live his life.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please." ]
> At least now I'm safe from those microwaves
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life." ]
> They should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves" ]
> Dethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate." ]
> Do you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate" ]
> Is Alex Jones their CEO?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!" ]
> What a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?" ]
> Yeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?" ]
> Brave of you to assume I only eat "some" chocolate bars.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars." ]
> Could this cause a megadeth?
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars." ]
> If it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?" ]
> Are we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure" ]
> moooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen" ]
> Who cares? That shit is delicious
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(" ]
> You get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious" ]
> Yea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37…." ]
> Well fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s" ]
> Shit. I’ll be dead soon then after attacking the bag of hershey kisses. 😳
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s", ">\n\nWell fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol" ]
> And after all of this Hersheys will still have an aftertaste of vomit.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s", ">\n\nWell fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol", ">\n\nShit. I’ll be dead soon then after attacking the bag of hershey kisses. 😳" ]
> Can confirm. Mine had Anthrax.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s", ">\n\nWell fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol", ">\n\nShit. I’ll be dead soon then after attacking the bag of hershey kisses. 😳", ">\n\nAnd after all of this Hersheys will still have an aftertaste of vomit." ]
> Maybe this explains why half the American population has such a low IQ! They just ate a little too much heavy metal chocolate.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s", ">\n\nWell fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol", ">\n\nShit. I’ll be dead soon then after attacking the bag of hershey kisses. 😳", ">\n\nAnd after all of this Hersheys will still have an aftertaste of vomit.", ">\n\nCan confirm. Mine had Anthrax." ]
> lmao and lead exposure, they need to feed their big pharma somehow
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s", ">\n\nWell fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol", ">\n\nShit. I’ll be dead soon then after attacking the bag of hershey kisses. 😳", ">\n\nAnd after all of this Hersheys will still have an aftertaste of vomit.", ">\n\nCan confirm. Mine had Anthrax.", ">\n\nMaybe this explains why half the American population has such a low IQ! They just ate a little too much heavy metal chocolate." ]
> Hershey can barely be considered chocolate anyway...
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s", ">\n\nWell fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol", ">\n\nShit. I’ll be dead soon then after attacking the bag of hershey kisses. 😳", ">\n\nAnd after all of this Hersheys will still have an aftertaste of vomit.", ">\n\nCan confirm. Mine had Anthrax.", ">\n\nMaybe this explains why half the American population has such a low IQ! They just ate a little too much heavy metal chocolate.", ">\n\nlmao and lead exposure, they need to feed their big pharma somehow" ]
> FDA Warning: May contain trace amounts of Metallica, has been shown in some cases to lead to Megadeth.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s", ">\n\nWell fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol", ">\n\nShit. I’ll be dead soon then after attacking the bag of hershey kisses. 😳", ">\n\nAnd after all of this Hersheys will still have an aftertaste of vomit.", ">\n\nCan confirm. Mine had Anthrax.", ">\n\nMaybe this explains why half the American population has such a low IQ! They just ate a little too much heavy metal chocolate.", ">\n\nlmao and lead exposure, they need to feed their big pharma somehow", ">\n\nHershey can barely be considered chocolate anyway..." ]
> I absolutely hate Hershey’s bars. This is a win for me.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s", ">\n\nWell fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol", ">\n\nShit. I’ll be dead soon then after attacking the bag of hershey kisses. 😳", ">\n\nAnd after all of this Hersheys will still have an aftertaste of vomit.", ">\n\nCan confirm. Mine had Anthrax.", ">\n\nMaybe this explains why half the American population has such a low IQ! They just ate a little too much heavy metal chocolate.", ">\n\nlmao and lead exposure, they need to feed their big pharma somehow", ">\n\nHershey can barely be considered chocolate anyway...", ">\n\nFDA Warning: May contain trace amounts of Metallica, has been shown in some cases to lead to Megadeth." ]
> Hersheys still isn’t able to legally call their stuff “chocolate”
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s", ">\n\nWell fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol", ">\n\nShit. I’ll be dead soon then after attacking the bag of hershey kisses. 😳", ">\n\nAnd after all of this Hersheys will still have an aftertaste of vomit.", ">\n\nCan confirm. Mine had Anthrax.", ">\n\nMaybe this explains why half the American population has such a low IQ! They just ate a little too much heavy metal chocolate.", ">\n\nlmao and lead exposure, they need to feed their big pharma somehow", ">\n\nHershey can barely be considered chocolate anyway...", ">\n\nFDA Warning: May contain trace amounts of Metallica, has been shown in some cases to lead to Megadeth.", ">\n\nI absolutely hate Hershey’s bars. This is a win for me." ]
> Hershey’s: What’s with you consumers?? When you’re not complaining about our poisonous metals chocolate you’re bitching about our vomit chemical chocolate!
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s", ">\n\nWell fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol", ">\n\nShit. I’ll be dead soon then after attacking the bag of hershey kisses. 😳", ">\n\nAnd after all of this Hersheys will still have an aftertaste of vomit.", ">\n\nCan confirm. Mine had Anthrax.", ">\n\nMaybe this explains why half the American population has such a low IQ! They just ate a little too much heavy metal chocolate.", ">\n\nlmao and lead exposure, they need to feed their big pharma somehow", ">\n\nHershey can barely be considered chocolate anyway...", ">\n\nFDA Warning: May contain trace amounts of Metallica, has been shown in some cases to lead to Megadeth.", ">\n\nI absolutely hate Hershey’s bars. This is a win for me.", ">\n\nHersheys still isn’t able to legally call their stuff “chocolate”" ]
> Aren’t heavy metals common in chocolate? I know there was a similar scandal with chocolate flavored protein powder a few years back. The issue was some brands used real chocolate and that resulted in heavy metals in the powder
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s", ">\n\nWell fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol", ">\n\nShit. I’ll be dead soon then after attacking the bag of hershey kisses. 😳", ">\n\nAnd after all of this Hersheys will still have an aftertaste of vomit.", ">\n\nCan confirm. Mine had Anthrax.", ">\n\nMaybe this explains why half the American population has such a low IQ! They just ate a little too much heavy metal chocolate.", ">\n\nlmao and lead exposure, they need to feed their big pharma somehow", ">\n\nHershey can barely be considered chocolate anyway...", ">\n\nFDA Warning: May contain trace amounts of Metallica, has been shown in some cases to lead to Megadeth.", ">\n\nI absolutely hate Hershey’s bars. This is a win for me.", ">\n\nHersheys still isn’t able to legally call their stuff “chocolate”", ">\n\nHershey’s: What’s with you consumers?? When you’re not complaining about our poisonous metals chocolate you’re bitching about our vomit chemical chocolate!" ]
> Wait... who still thinks Hershey's product is actually chocolate? That shit gives me heartburn anytime I eat that garbage.
[ "I hope lawsuits force chocolate makers to reduce the level of metals. I love dark chocolate and don’t want lead poisoning!", ">\n\nThen where will I get my daily requirement of lead?", ">\n\nAmerican here, just lick a wall", ">\n\nOr just walk down a street on the South Side if Chicago, you'll end up full of lead by the end of the walk", ">\n\nOr any major American city", ">\n\nEh, most major cities have lower murder rates than the those for the general population as a whole. They simply have more murders because they have more people. \nChicago is another story though", ">\n\nPer capita, Chicago isn't even in the top ten in the US.", ">\n\nHence why I specified the South Side. You could also probably include the West Side as well. Those parts of Chicago are some of the worst in the whole country", ">\n\nIt would seem that, as part of the responsibility of making a food, the maker should ensure that it is not poisonous.", ">\n\nIf you think that’s bad, supplements as a whole can be worse. \nThere’s sooo many out there, and none of them are regulated by the FDA, that contain heavy metals. \nYou have to depend on third-party independent testing to see if it’s safe.", ">\n\nWait, why are supplements not regulated? How the fuck can they get away with that?", ">\n\nI would assume supplement enforcement would be more similar to food enforcement than drug enforcement. Just prove to the FDA that your “food” (aka supplements) are not contaminated and is fit for human consumption, then you can sell it", ">\n\nIt’s pharma-lite. More regulation than food, less than pharmaceuticals. \n21 cfr part 111 dedicated to regulation of supplements.", ">\n\nThanks for the regulatory knowledge :)", ">\n\nHappy to help!", ">\n\nAnd I suppose the Cad in Cadbury is for Cadmium?", ">\n\nCadmi-yummy", ">\n\nConsumer Reports:\n\nWe used [California's] levels because there are no federal limits for the amount of lead and cadmium most foods can contain, ...\n\nFDA:\n\nThe FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, ...\n\nAnd for what it's worth:\n\nThe FDA’s current IRL is calculated at 2.2 µg per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age (updated in 2022). These levels allow for differences across human populations and are set nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC’s blood reference level.\n\nPer CR, the highest lead level (Hershey's Special Dark) was 1.325 µg per ounce.\nAlso note that an ounce is, like, 2/3 of a standard size Hershey bar. So we're talking about roughly 2 µg in a bar.", ">\n\nBecause some manufacturers have virtually no lead and cadmium, we know it’s possible for all manufacturers. \nCan’t even believe we need to remind candy companies not to allow poison in the chocolate. Sheesh.", ">\n\nIt's almost certainly an issue with where they grow it. Some soils naturally have lead or were contaminated with lead from leaded gasoline or industrial dischange. The only (feasible) way to remove it is to set aside the field to grow something that bioaccumulates lead for several years, remove all the plant matter to be buried, and then restart cultivation. Or just grow things somewhere else.\nThere's a reason why the dark chocolate had higher lead levels: that probably means it's coming from the cocoa solids, since the cocoa plants bioaccumulated lead in small amounts. It's not like they're slipping lead into the chocolate batch or using lead in their machinery (I hope). It's about where the cocoa is grown.", ">\n\nIt’s more to do with the metals contained in the pots which are heated and used to refine(if that’s the right word?) cocoa, IIRC.\nThe metals then leech from said pots to the cocoa.\nThere was a decent article on this at least 1-2+ years ago but I can’t remember who published it…", ">\n\nSo that's why I was head-banging uncontrollably after eating 6 boxes worth.", ">\n\nMaybe it had Anthrax in it?", ">\n\nSlow clap", ">\n\nReduce the size and keep the weight the same with this one easy trick!", ">\n\nCocoa farmers hate them!", ">\n\nSo was I addicted to the chocolate or the metals?", ">\n\nThe real addiction was the tooth loss we made along the way.", ">\n\nr/unexpectedthegoodplace?", ">\n\nthat line existed before it was used in one joke in a post credits scene in an episode of that show lol", ">\n\nOooh, didn't know that!", ">\n\nIt would be super nice to have a functional FDA.", ">\n\nGot defunded by you know who", ">\n\nNot that the new administration has fixed it.", ">\n\nEven the worst idiots can break things\nTo be fair, the FDA and other agencies have been getting more corrupt as the decades wore on\nBut it takes high level politics and massive cooperation to fix these. Both, at the same time, domestically for the USA federal government, are rarer than hens teeth", ">\n\nThat explains my declining... What are we talking about again?", ">\n\nIdk but I could go for some chocolate right now.", ">\n\nI would be pissed if I got chocolate in my mercury.", ">\n\nHey?!? You got your mercury in my chocolate.\nTwo great tastes that taste great together...", ">\n\nHersheys: Everyone knows chocolate goes with pb. Me: Peanut butter, right? Right?", ">\n\nThis is a clever joke. Thank you 😂", ">\n\nHershey's isn't considered chocolate in the EU.", ">\n\nYes, many in USA doesn’t either.", ">\n\nCalling Hershey chocolate is a small trigger for me. Someone asks me if I like chocolate, then hands me small Hershey bar. \nI love chocolate and you just got me a little excited for that.", ">\n\nWhy is Reuters citing a bogus “study” that dark chocolate is good for your cardiovascular health? That’s been debunked, and the guy that fabricated it, did it to demonstrate how stupid and unregulated medical science journalism is.", ">\n\n\"Just a little bit of metal, guys. Keep it movin'\".", ">\n\nBetter than alt rocks, I guess.", ">\n\nWhat a shitty lawsuit. The heavy metals are necessary. Without them the flavor of child slavery would be overpowering.", ">\n\nSo I'm guessing they'll be selling Hershey's dark chocolate supplements next year to dodge the suit?", ">\n\nThere will be a Quiet Riot over this, methinks.", ">\n\nWhat will this mean for any potential partnerships with Metallica for their new album?", ">\n\n🎶 It's yo one way ticket to midnight 🎶", ">\n\nCall it heavy metal 🤘🏻\nBut is heavy metal in Hershey’s safer than the ammonia in cat pee?", ">\n\nHeavy Metal Hershey’s Chocolate seems like a good name for a funk/metal fusion band", ">\n\nAll that aluminum foil on those Hershey's kisses?", ">\n\nUnwrap it first please.", ">\n\nLet him live his life.", ">\n\nAt least now I'm safe from those microwaves", ">\n\nThey should be sued for calling that shit chocolate.", ">\n\nDethklok's newest enterprise: Black Metal Chocolate", ">\n\nDo you folks like coffee.....in the Hill's of Columbia!", ">\n\nIs Alex Jones their CEO?", ">\n\nWhat a pointless article. Lawsuit claiming high levels of lead and cadmium, but no actual numbers? How high are the levels?", ">\n\nYeah I appreciate it. The issue with the whole thing is cacao and other beans like it are high in cadmium and lead. Coffee and tea have the same issue. It's not really a problem though because people should have a moderate intake. It's like suing a fish seller because their cod was found to have high levels of mercury. If you don't want lead and cadmium, don't eat too much food. You're going to take in more lead from licking your fingers after driving to get some KFC and not washing your hands after you fell in the parking lot than you're going to get from eating some chocolate bars.", ">\n\nBrave of you to assume I only eat \"some\" chocolate bars.", ">\n\nCould this cause a megadeth?", ">\n\nIf it did, Hershey would be a slayer for sure", ">\n\nAre we talking like Judas Priest, or more like Van Halen", ">\n\nmoooom why is black sabbath in my hershey’s bar :(", ">\n\nWho cares? That shit is delicious", ">\n\nYou get $1.37. You get $1.37! And you get $1.37!! Everyone gets $1.37….", ">\n\nYea, someone told me Metallica used to eat those by boxes before their concerts. Only after they dropped that practice they were able to perform with symphony orchestra. Iron Maiden still doing it though./s", ">\n\nWell fuck me I just ate a Christmas Hershey bar lol", ">\n\nShit. I’ll be dead soon then after attacking the bag of hershey kisses. 😳", ">\n\nAnd after all of this Hersheys will still have an aftertaste of vomit.", ">\n\nCan confirm. Mine had Anthrax.", ">\n\nMaybe this explains why half the American population has such a low IQ! They just ate a little too much heavy metal chocolate.", ">\n\nlmao and lead exposure, they need to feed their big pharma somehow", ">\n\nHershey can barely be considered chocolate anyway...", ">\n\nFDA Warning: May contain trace amounts of Metallica, has been shown in some cases to lead to Megadeth.", ">\n\nI absolutely hate Hershey’s bars. This is a win for me.", ">\n\nHersheys still isn’t able to legally call their stuff “chocolate”", ">\n\nHershey’s: What’s with you consumers?? When you’re not complaining about our poisonous metals chocolate you’re bitching about our vomit chemical chocolate!", ">\n\nAren’t heavy metals common in chocolate? I know there was a similar scandal with chocolate flavored protein powder a few years back. The issue was some brands used real chocolate and that resulted in heavy metals in the powder" ]