Research reveals ways lead and cadmium in chocolate may be reduced

Re:Research reveals ways lead and cadmium in chocolate may b... by londons_explore on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:20AM (#34015518)

What actual dose are we talking about?

Like, if I'm an average chocolate eater, what proportion of my total lead intake will come from chocolate, vs other sources?

If it's under 0.1%, it isn't worth talking about. If it's 1%, it's worth a passing thought. If it's 10% it's worth some effort to avoid/fix. If it's 50%, I'd probably give up chocolate.

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Re:Research reveals ways lead and cadmium in chocolate may b... by khiqxj on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:42PM (#34018367)

if you take the product they tested with the highest lead concentration (2.4µg per serving), and ate 10 servings, you would have 1/20th of the harmful concentration of lead, according to my calculations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34018344

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Re:Research reveals ways lead and cadmium in chocolate may b... by hgomersall on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:23PM (#34018883)

It's cumulative, so you can't just take spot concentrations.

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Re:Research reveals ways lead and cadmium in chocolate may b... by citizenpaul on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:43PM (#34019228)

I once read something and I don't remember if it was from a good source. It said that one of the ways they can identify bones from the last 100 year is that older bones have something like 400x less lead traces in them. Basically everyone alive has a degree of lead poisoning thanks to leaded gasoline.

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