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Justin’s Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups test positive for unsafe levels of Lead & Cadmium: 2024 Laboratory Report

Justin’s Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups test positive for unsafe levels of Lead & Cadmium: 2024 Laboratory Report

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   Quick note from Tamara Rubin: Most of the Halloween-type candies we have tested have come back positive for very high levels of Cadmium, in addition to many also testing positive for concerning levels of Lead and Arsenic. Cadmium has been documented as a known carcinogen for more than three decades. While some parents might…

How toxic is your chocolate treat?

How toxic is your chocolate treat?

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I just updated this graphic and shared it on Instagram with the text below. Here’s an updated list… and, in the meantime… Simple Mills be like “we comply, we comply, we do our best…” yet they have the HIGHEST Lead levels of any of the SEVEN chocolate treats we have tested and published reports for…

Unreal Dark Chocolate Coconut Bars test positive for unsafe levels of Lead and Cadmium. See the laboratory report here.

Unreal Dark Chocolate Coconut Bars test positive for unsafe levels of Lead and Cadmium. See the laboratory report here.

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  For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama,…

Unreal Milk Chocolate Gems test positive for unsafe levels of Lead (higher than M&M’s!) and unsafe levels of Cadmium. See the laboratory report here.

Unreal Milk Chocolate Gems test positive for unsafe levels of Lead (higher than M&M’s!) and unsafe levels of Cadmium. See the laboratory report here.

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  For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama,…

M&M’s test positive for a surprisingly low level of Lead (but a level still unsafe for kids to consume)!

M&M’s test positive for a surprisingly low level of Lead (but a level still unsafe for kids to consume)!

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  For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama,…