Some chocolate products exceed recommended levels for heavy metals

Everyday Health quoted Katarzyna Kordas in an article reporting on a study finding that many cocoa products, especially dark chocolate, contain heavy metals including lead and cadmium that exceed recommended safety guidelines. It’s potentially worrisome that for some of the products, a single serving may already exceed these reference values for lead and cadmium, said Kordas. “On the flip side, since we do not know what types of chocolate products were tested in this study (with the exception of dark chocolate), we have no idea about the products or the actual serving sizes,” she said.