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by PaulHoule 722 days ago
No, I see canned peaches with a P65 label and I see canned peaches without them. Same for fried snacks.
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Are those labels based on periodic random testing or based on risk avoidance?

What proportion of these labels are false positives?

Main threats I see are lead and cadmium in some foods from China, also high levels of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide

in some foods.

We dumped lead all over the environment. You can basically assume anything grown has lead, the only question being how much. Likewise, mercury. In some areas there's a lot of arsenic.

Most everything high on the periodic table is nasty. The few that we willingly associate with are because they are non-reactive enough to not actually pose a threat even if in theory they're harmful. (Consider the use of barium to image the digestive system. They use a form of it that's sufficiently insoluble that you don't get poisoned.)