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Are those labels based on periodic random testing or based on risk avoidance? What proportion of these labels are false positives?

• PaulHoule 2y ago
  Main threats I see are lead and cadmium in some foods from China, also high levels of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide in some foods.
  • LorenPechtel 2y ago
    We dumped lead all over the environment. You can basically assume anything grown has lead, the only question being how much. Likewise, mercury. In some areas there's a lot of arsenic. Most everything high on the periodic table is nasty. The few that we willingly associate with are because they are non-reactive enough to not actually pose a threat even if in theory they're harmful. (Consider the use of barium to image the digestive system. They use a form of it that's sufficiently insoluble that you don't get poisoned.)