Summary
A Clean Label Project report found concerning levels of lead and cadmium in protein powders, especially plant-based, organic, and chocolate-flavored varieties.
Nearly 80% of plant-based products exceeded California’s Proposition 65 safety limits for lead, with chocolate-flavored powders containing up to 110 times more cadmium than vanilla.
Heavy metals naturally occur in soil but can be elevated by industrial contamination.
While BPA and BPS contamination has decreased since 2018, 47% of powders tested still exceeded Prop 65 limits.
Experts recommend whey-based or pea protein powders for lower contamination levels.
Lack of names is very frustrating.
I’m assuming they deliberately don’t release their test results to encourage companies to pay for their (probably expensive) certification.
Agreed.
Which also makes me not trust them in the slightest as a result, especially when the only named products are ones they “certified”.
FWIW in a similar study of brands of chocolate every single one had lead and cadmium.
it’s does not mention the brands or their methods. so these findings are not replicable.
As these heavy metals are not being found in vegetables and pulses, then any contamination must be from specific manufacturing processes.
Fuck yeah, not only are Hitler’s Youth roided out - we get to experience roid rage on top of lead fueled cognitive degeneration. Sick.
Damn, we are speeding towards Idiocracy!
The heavy metals are there to help bulk up. The cadmium adds some radioactivity for superpowers.
How else am i gonna get abs of steel?
Those are minerals.
here in the United States we legally allow for a good amount of heavy metal contamination up to five percent plus or minus except with legal cannabis which is more rigorously tested for containments including heavy metals with third party lab testing
nicotine and seasonings like vanilla extract that come from places like India that are very high in heavy metal contamination and businesses like the maker of Vuse sources their nicotine from places like that as well that have high concentrations of metal just like the seasonings
heavy metal contamination equals more Democrat and Republican voters so it is very much allowed here in the states
It’s crazy that it only takes one Google search to prove you wrong
This conspiracy holds absolutely no water. Lead makes people stupid and violent. Democrat voters tend to be more educated on average. This isn’t even to mention that the families of these politicians would be consuming these poisons too, right? They’re okay with this because of the grand conspiracy to create dem/repub voters in a country with only 2 parties anyway? Have you even compared regulations in the US to other places?
not a conspiracy that heavy metals are acceptable and that big wallets are controlling regulations and standards that keep them in power through things like controlling the environment of the people thereby keeping them sick and yes this happens globally with other countries having even lower big industry regulations that keep factories polluting the earth with the heavy metals in exorbitant amounts that eventually wind up in things we consume
people are not just kept in poverty and controlled by wages but also pollution
