Yet despite dark chocolate’s reputation as a healthier sweet, it can also be contaminated with lead and cadmium, two heavy ...

Here’s what we know now, and why experts say you can have your dark chocolate and eat it too. In 2023, Consumer Reports found levels of the toxic heavy metals lead and cadmium above California ...

The city’s consumer watchdog has discovered that all 29 chocolate samples it tested contained traces of the heavy metal cadmium, with one batch exceeding permitted EU levels. The Consumer ...