Dagoba chocolate recalled--high lead!!!

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artisticat

Discussion Starter · Apr 12, 2006

Thought this might interest some people.

http://www.thegreenguide.com/doc.mhtml?i=113&s=dagoba

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geez, I was just thinking of getting one of those yesterday...that was my favorite brand of chocolate bar...we ate a few since Nov..none of the ones mentioned though....another reason to stick to raw cacao. thanks artisticat

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welldone

· #3 · Apr 12, 2006

Wow, that's scary. How does lead even get into organic chocolate? Is there something about chocolate production, harvesting, product manufacture, etc. that I don't know about?

Thanks for the link.

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mystic~mama

· #4 · Apr 13, 2006

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Originally Posted by welldone
Wow, that's scary. How does lead even get into organic chocolate? Is there something about chocolate production, harvesting, product manufacture, etc. that I don't know about?

Thanks for the link.

great questions...I'd love to know this also.

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alsoSarah

· #5 · Apr 13, 2006

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mamatosage

· #6 · Apr 13, 2006

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artisticat

Discussion Starter · #7 · Apr 13, 2006

Here is an article about lead in chocolate. Doesn't really seem to know where exactly it all comes from

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20051105/food.asp

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/514249

So basically this is still being researched. There can be numerous factors involved, but no one seems to know exactly where such high levels are coming from. Not very good news. i can't have chocolate right now anyway because I am on the SCD diet, but I will watch my consumption and that of my dd in the future that's for sure.

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lauraess

· #8 · Apr 19, 2006

Oh geez... that's great info since I do love their chocolate. Im sure i may have eaten one or more of those mentioned since NOv. Maybe not. it's not a ton though that i've eaten. Maybe one every week at the most. Yikes. Is that enough to think seriously about having the test?

Is NOTHING SAFE anymore

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That was such a great indulgence.

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beanma

· #9 · Apr 19, 2006

me love chotlit. am sooooo sad

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don't know if i can curb my addiction. wonder where it's coming from? (the lead, not my addiction.) that science news article was really not very helpful. i don't think raw cacao is safe either from the sound of it...

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mystic~mama

· #10 · Apr 19, 2006

i thought raw cacao was safer w/out the shells ?

either way I'm resigned to not eating chocolate...i layed of the raw cacao 3 weeks ago and was just given a bag of it only to get the shakes after eating a tablespoon full

I think I'm bettter off.

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julie128

· #11 · Apr 20, 2006

nak. chocolate gets lead because most choc. is grown in africa where they still use leaded gas. exhaust goes into the air, comes down on crops. it's better to buy s. am. choc.

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beanma

· #12 · Apr 20, 2006

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Originally Posted by julie128
nak. chocolate gets lead because most choc. is grown in africa where they still use leaded gas. exhaust goes into the air, comes down on crops. it's better to buy s. am. choc.

actually the dagoba choc that was recalled was grown in ecuador.

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http://www.oregonlive.com/news/orego...470.xml&coll=7
Three kinds of Dagoba chocolate are involved: Eclipse 87%, Los Rios
68% and Prima Matera 100% dark chocolate products. All contain
cocoa that was grown in the Los Rios region of Ecuador, Williams has
said.

don't know what to think...

eta: mystic mama, don't really know about the raw cacao. maybe i should reread that sciencenews article. it mentioned the hulls and lead absorption. i'm confused

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BookGoddess

· #13 · Apr 20, 2006

Ack!! I love dark chocolate. You know life is unfair when the joys of a good chocolate bar can be taken away because of heavy metals.

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