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From 2014 to 2022, researchers bought 72 popular cocoa products — predominantly pure dark chocolate bars, but also cocoa powder — from Amazon.com, Whole Foods, GNC and other retailers in the U.S.
Dark chocolate and similar cocoa products are contaminated with lead and cadmium, two neurotoxic metals that are linked to cancer, chronic disease, or reproductive and developmental issues ...
Researchers analyzed 72 cocoa-based foods — including dark chocolate, often praised as a heart-healthy treat — over eight years. They found that 43% of the products contained an amount of lead ...
While the FDA does not set limits for cadmium or arsenic, almost all of the chocolate bars in the study were below its recommended level for lead: 2.2 mcg a day for children under age 7 and 8.8 ...
Classically, "lead poisoning" or "lead intoxication" has been defined as exposure to high levels of lead typically associated with severe health effects. [20] Poisoning is a pattern of symptoms that occur with toxic effects from mid to high levels of exposure; toxicity is a wider spectrum of effects, including subclinical ones (those that do ...
Cadmium is a naturally occurring toxic metal with common exposure in industrial workplaces, plant soils, and from smoking. Due to its low permissible exposure in humans, overexposure may occur even in situations where only trace quantities of cadmium are found.
For example, 0.4 oz (11 g) of baker's chocolate would be enough to produce mild symptoms in a 20 lb (9.1 kg) dog, while a 25% cacao chocolate bar (like milk chocolate) would be only 25% as toxic as the same dose of baker's chocolate. [15] One ounce of milk chocolate per pound of body weight (63 g/kg) is a potentially lethal dose in dogs. [14]
Trader Joe’s dark chocolate has harmful levels of lead and other heavy metals, according to a new lawsuit. Here’s what to know about the contaminated chocolate.