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Last week, Consumer Reports put out a report on chemicals in snack foods. On social media, they specifically called out the phthalates in Annie’s Cheddar Bunnies, a snack that many of your children (and mine) eat. This is part of a broader set of testing Consumer Reports has been doing about contaminants in food.
The argument behind all of these reports is that the levels of some substance – here, a bunch of different chemicals – are close to or higher than some reference dose. The core problem is that they choose bizarrely conservative benchmarks that make no sense.
To be more concrete, let me take on two of the specific bunny concerns.
First:…
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These reference values are insane… and sounds like purposeful sabotage of those bunnies.