Introduction (for those new to this website):
Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF testing (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals), including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic. All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable. Items are tested multiple times, to confirm the test results for each component. Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February of 2023.
Thursday — December 22, 2022
I created these graphics to use in my response to the propaganda being spewed out by the chocolate industry this week. I will be using these in my response article (to the greenwashing and misinformation being spread by the makers of HU chocolate, specifically). Please do scroll down and take a look at the second image, then comment below with your thoughts in response to that critical bit of information. Thank you!
After hearing about the excessive lead in chocolate, specifically the brands I eat daily (not just a few times a week), I had a heavy metals test done. While not as high as I feared, I still tested above your recommended levels for an adult female. So disappointed in this whole thing.
Do you have a list of chocolates that are affected not just Hershey’s but we do organic chocolate from natural grocers and I’m thinking some of them are with lead as well
https://tamararubin.com/2022/12/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-consumer-reports-lead-in-chocolate-article-published-today/
It is really all chocolate – here’s the scene from my film: https://tamararubin.com/2022/12/scene-about-lead-in-chocolate-wine-filmed-in-february-of-2012-from-misleadamericas-secret-epidemic-a-documentary/