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by siftrics 961 days ago
Yes and the most well-known historical cases involved diethylene glycol, not lead. But lead is used, too.
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I really do not think anyone is adding lead to food to increase the weight when you could use any metal compound with a roughly similar density like iron oxide (which even has an E-number) and thereby not obviously poison anyone for the sake a few grams and get yourself discovered immediately.

And if you wanted to weigh down the container, lead costs more then iron per kg: just make the existing iron-based can thicker.