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Lead can get into food if someone in the supply chain is trying to cheaply weigh down a product to make it feel heavier as if it has more food than it does. See
by ljlolel 3y ago
Lead can get into food if someone in the supply chain is trying to cheaply weigh down a product to make it feel heavier as if it has more food than it does. See lead in wine controversies.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoYou would have to put a lot of lead in food to make an appreciable difference in mass. Lead in wine, as I understand it, is about sweetness and preservation, not density.
- siftrics 3y agoYes and the most well-known historical cases involved diethylene glycol, not lead. But lead is used, too.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoI really do not think anyone is adding lead to food to increase the weight when you could use any metal compound with a roughly similar density like iron oxide (which even has an E-number) and thereby not obviously poison anyone for the sake a few grams and get yourself discovered immediately. And if you wanted to weigh down the container, lead costs more then iron per kg: just make the existing iron-based can thicker.