[class700]

Any amount of Lead is poisonous.

[3ple_alpha]

For chronic exposure, yes. You don't want it to be in your food all the time. But accidentally eating a tiny bit once would be safe.

[wumeow]

That’s the whole point of this article. Many people will consume multiple servings of protein shake per day for most of their life, and they’re contaminated.

[loeg]

They're contaminated at levels comparable to other foods people eat (baseline).

[loeg]

A tiny amount of lead is a tiny bit poisonous. Magnitude matters.

[wumeow]

And time. People with a bll level 76% above baseline will wonder in ten years why they have coordination problems and trouble thinking.

[loeg]

That's the point -- the worst of these products don't have levels above baseline!

[craigdalton]

With an average US blood lead level of about 1 microgram per deciliter, an increase of 76% is still less than 2 micrograms per deciliter which would have an imperceptible impact on any neurological function for an individual. People with even a tenfold (1000%) increase above baseline don't show perceptible coordination problems. Not writing to have an argument. Just see a lot of people who suffer from misperception of the impacts of tiny levels of contaminants, people lose sleep non-stop worry, sometimes even lose the equity in their "contaminated" house by walking away from their loan due to misinformation about risk.