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Published: June 24, 2024
Monday
Below is cerebelly’s response to customers (via Instagram comments and messages today). About 15 Lead Safe Mama readers have separately shared this response with us via private messages (and emails) today. There is some degree of variation to the responses, but most contain this exact language (in the image below). We shared the graphic below on Instagram and Facebook today with the following comment/ introductory statement (we will be publishing a point by point response later today as well):
Article link (on home page and pinned in highlights today, too)
@eatcerebelly you may want to read this (article linked below) and perhaps revise your public statement accordingly — to actually reflect that you are not attempting to gaslight your customer base (as you appear to be with your public statements on social media today), but instead that you are taking responsibility for your public messaging & public statements made up to this point & that you acknowledge you will do better in the future.
If your product tested non-detect for Lead (which it did, with the context of the noted limit of detection for the testing done), there’s no reason customers would not expect for it also to test negative/ non-detect for a known carcinogen (Cadmium) — especially given your blatant/ aggressive and repetitive anti-cancer messaging.
Take responsibility for your mistakes.
Stop gaslighting a customer base that believed your messaging.
Know better, do better.
Apologize.
Some additional reading that may be of interest:
- Our landing page with links to all of the food test results for products Lead Safe Mama, LLC has tested.
- How to send your own food samples into a lab for testing (the cost is $195 per single food sample tested for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic)
- The Food category of articles here on Lead Safe Mama dot com
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