Consumer advocacy group As You Sow has sent legal notices to Hershey, Mars, and See's Candies. The group claims the confectioners have violated California's Proposition 65 law by not labeling foods containing lead and cadmium.
As You Sow found traces of heavy metals in Hershey Scharffen bars, Mars' Dove dark chocolate bars, and See's Candies Extra Dark Chocolate. The group didn't share the exact levels of metal in the chocolates but said one serving of the products in question "exceeded the safe harbor level for reproductive harm," Confectionery News reports.
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