Get the Lead Out!

[Briar Lee]

or it could be that lead is a naturally occurring thing and any amount is not considered safe for developing people (commonly called babies). Soil can easily contain some amount of lead. And that's the tip of the iceberg.
Leads fun your body thinks it's calcium and tries to use it for the things calcium does. And the body like reusing calcium and not getting rid of it.

Missouri is the Saudi Arabia of lead, and our last lead mine closed a few years ago. The reason is nearly all lead is recycled.

Even sixty years ago my father’s Grade A milk barn had no lead paint, which is somehow still good a half century after he died. Those walls got scrubbed twice a day. The milk was tested weekly or thereabouts, at random times by a milk inspector, who also inspected the barn and equipment. Everything was white, shiny and gleaming.

Third world countries can’t afford a complete system of food safety from field to table.

 

[anotherbob]

Peaches and apples have always grown in our yards. But, nothing wrong with a can of something. I was thinking of these pop tart like things they tell consumers that it as good as fresh fruit, which they aren't. Fruit roll ups are closer to a jar of jelly than a fresh fruit.

I love how many people think they're getting something healthy when they consume things made from fruit but processed to the point that the b

Missouri is the Saudi Arabia of lead, and our last lead mine closed a few years ago. The reason is nearly all lead is recycled.

Even sixty years ago my father’s Grade A milk barn had no lead paint, which is somehow still good a half century after he died. Those walls got scrubbed twice a day. The milk was tested weekly or thereabouts, at random times by a milk inspector, who also inspected the barn and equipment. Everything was white, shiny and gleaming.

Third world countries can’t afford a complete system of food safety from field to table.

i guess my point is where in the process did the lead come in ? who knows

 

[Briar Lee]

I love how many people think they're getting something healthy when they consume things made from fruit but processed to the point that the b

i guess my point is where in the process did the lead come in ? who knows

The problem with discovering the source of the lead is the little kids with high lead levels are in North Carolina and the factory is in Ecuador.

The producers say they have been making their cinnamon apple flavored exotic fruit drinks for ten years, and the source might be runoff from a lead mine on the soil, or it might be lead solder repairs to tanks, or other lead contamination, but I’d look first at the water used in the processing.

The public water supplies in third world nations are managed by third world technicians.

The New York investment bankers that own plantations in places like Ecuador hire managers who are aware of the catastrophic consequences of a nationwide recall but they don’t control the water line to the plant.

 

[anotherbob]

The problem with discovering the source of the lead is the little kids with high lead levels are in North Carolina and the factory is in Ecuador.

The producers say they have been making their cinnamon apple flavored exotic fruit drinks for ten years, and the source might be runoff from a lead mine on the soil, or it might be lead solder repairs to tanks, or other lead contamination, but I’d look first at the water used in the processing.

The public water supplies in third world nations are managed by third world technicians.

The New York investment bankers that own plantations in places like Ecuador hire managers who are aware of the catastrophic consequences of a nationwide recall but they don’t control the water line to the plant.

so you're saying it's the old "hey it ain't my problem as long as someone else pays the consequences who cares".