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I've been enjoying Trader Joe's Pound Plus chocolate for years .. ... but just found out that it is one of many chocolates tested with positive results for lea

• mikekchar 11y ago
  I find it odd that given that it's their own study they don't actually provide it. If this is a case of, "We did our own study. No... it's not peer reviewed. No... you can't see it. Just trust us, we did a good job." then I'm not really inclined to give it much credence. I'm also a bit concerned with their name-and-blame approach. Even in their FAQ they surmise that it is likely that contamination came as a result of agricultural processes. Hershey's, for example, must source it's chocolate from just about everywhere. It's a BIG company. So, if Hershey's chocolate is unsafe, I've got to think that all chocolate is unsafe. My internal pessimism make me think that this is more likely a case of an environmental group using whatever means it can to cause alarm in the populace and try to force changes in agricultural practices. What is rather unfortunate is that such tactics simply polarize opinion. It will make it more difficult to sway the opinions of those they need to convince because nobody will trust them.