Hershey Co. is looking to reduce “trace” amounts of lead and cadmium in its chocolate, chief financial officer Steve Voskuil told Reuters on Wednesday, after Consumer Reports found that some dark chocolate bars had potentially harmful levels of the heavy metals.
Consumer Reports, a non-profit consumer group, tested chocolate bars including those made by Hershey late last year and found that some of them contained possibly harmful levels of lead, cadmium or both for people who eat more than one ounce per day.
The trace amounts of the metals found in some chocolate are “below any recommended level, any standard,” Voskuil said,
