Consumer Reports Urges Hershey’s again to Get Heavy Metals Out of Chocolate Products. Really!

Bad news for chocoholics? You wonder about other brands. How does this compare to other food products?

Apparently Consumer Reports reported something similar last year! CR does not explain or hint how the heavy metals get into the chocolate.

CR used California standards, which may be unnecessarily or excessively strict!

I did not read the whole news release, but it appears that actually most products had less heavy metals than the threshold level. So perhaps this is more shock and awe or an attention grabber than real. Or in other words, was this more or less a publicity stunt?

"... Hershey’s milk chocolate, an iconic Halloween treat, had the highest levels of lead in CR’s tests. Last year, CR found that a number of Hershey’s dark chocolate bars had some of the highest levels of lead or cadmium of all brands it tested.  ...
To assess the risk from lead and cadmium, CR looked at whether a serving of each product would expose someone to California’s standard maximum allowable dose levels (MADL) for lead (0.5 micrograms per day) and cadmium (4.1 micrograms per day). ..."

Consumer Reports Urges Hershey’s to Get Heavy Metals Out of Chocolate Products - Consumer Reports Latest CR Tests Find Concerning Levels of Lead in Hershey’s Cocoa Powder and Milk Chocolate; Previous Tests Found Hershey’s Dark Chocolate High in Lead and Cadmium

Credits: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Global Health NOW