Consumer Reports Investigation Finds More Chocolate With Heav We tested 28 dark chocolate bars for lead and cadmium. to determine the risk posed by the chocolates in cr’s test, we used california's maximum allowable dose level (madl) for lead (0.5. And in fact none of the five milk chocolate bars in our tests were over cr’s limit for either heavy metal. hershey’s milk chocolate bar had the most lead, reaching 67 percent of cr’s limit.
Kuow Consumer Reports Finds Heavy Metals In Popular Chocolate Bars Levels of heavy metals in dark chocolate are sometimes surprisingly high, as shown by a recent consumer reports investigation. cr scientists recently tested 28 different dark chocolate bars and. October 26, 2023. building upon a december 2022 report on the levels of toxic heavy metals in dark chocolate, consumer reports recently published new findings about the contaminants in other kinds of chocolates, suggesting that one third of chocolate products contain high levels of heavy metals. although dark chocolate contains the highest. Consumer reports said more than 75,000 consumers signed an earlier petition for hershey to reduce heavy metals in its chocolate, and that it is now again petitioning the company. But dark chocolate may also contain two heavy metals harmful to health, consumer reports warns in an investigation published thursday, dec. 15. when the organization tested 28 dark chocolate bars.
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