Top Ingredients at Risk for Heavy Metals

Jaclyn Bowen, the Executive Director of Clean Label Project (a non-profit focused on health and transparency in consumer product labeling) recently posted an article providing a “cheat sheet” for consumers to be aware of ingredients which may contain toxic heavy metals.  The top offenders on the list include:

• Chocolate (Cadmium)
• Rice and rice-based ingredients (Arsenic)
• Fish-based ingredients (Mercury)
• Spices (Lead)
• Water (Lead)