A new report released today by As You Sow and the National Confectioners Association is the result of a three-year effort by a multi-disciplinary panel of four experts regarding the sources of lead and cadmium in cocoa and chocolate and how levels may be reduced in the future.
Read MoreToday a California Superior Court judge in San Francisco approved a settlement resolving claims that have lingered for years over whether certain levels of lead and cadmium in chocolate require warnings under California's stringent "Proposition 65" law. The settlement was negotiated by non-profit consumer advocacy group As You Sow and leaders of the chocolate industry over the past year.
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