Do You Have Heavy Metals in Your Spices?

Consumer reports magazine has an article about spices that is really rather shocking. Many spices you buy at the supermarket have concerning levels of heavy metals, things like lead and arsenic. Heavy metals stay in your body so it's cumulative over your lifetime. No single, clear predictor of which brand and which spice is safe. It's kind of across the board. And what about time? In other words, if you tested somebody now, wu would it maybe not have let them down six months from now? That's possible. The spot check is just like a snapshot in time. I'm just trying to capture for market signals. So it's different each year but they're all going to change.

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