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Lead and Circuses | Jen Sorensen (infosec.pub)

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Jen Sorensen.

From her website:

Consumer Reports recently made headlines with a new study showing high levels of lead in many protein powders and shakes. The average amount of lead detected had increased from a previous study done 15 years ago. It’s ironic that this particular wellness fad, like many others, may actually be compromising people’s health.

Ultimately, this cartoon is about more than just one scientific finding. If we look at what happened with COVID, or childhood vaccinations, or even climate change or January 6, we can see how easily conventional wisdom gets turned on its head by bad faith actors, especially in a media environment lacking responsible editors.

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[–] turdas@suppo.fi 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

You should know that the Consumer Reports article was a bit of a nothingburger and/or a classic State of California-style overreaction. Even one of the worst products on it (Huel Black) had 7 µg of lead per 100 g of product, which is equal to 0.07 mg/kg, which is less than half of what the EU considers a safe level for e.g. cereals and pulses (0.20 mg/kg).

The assertion that there is no safe level of lead may or may not be true, but our natural environment even without human pollution has lead in it, which makes its way up the food chain into our foods, and ingesting it is unavoidable unless you only eat produce grown in a hydroponics lab or something. As a result, humans have some natural resistance to the toxicity of lead.

[–] vorpuni@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 4 points 2 weeks ago

Metal contamination in food is a double edged sword as well: if you live in America it's unlikely you'd ever need selenium supplementation, in Europe there's basically none in the soil so it's not impossible to be deficient.

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