Trader Joe's and The Hershey Company are facing class-action lawsuits over the amount of lead and cadmium in some dark chocolate products.
, when large amounts of cadmium are eaten, severe stomach irritation, vomiting and diarrhea can result. Other forms of cadmium exposure include breathing, particularly through breathing in tobacco smoke – which, over time and if in significant amounts, can result in kidney disease, fragile bones and cancer.
"High levels of lead and cadmium in food products is material to reasonable consumers, because these chemicals pose serious health risk, even in small dosages," the suits read. The Trader Joe's lawsuit notes that the plaintiff Thomas Ferrante, for example,"would not have been willing to pay the same amount for the and/or would not have been willing to purchase the Products" if Trader Joe's had adequately disclosed that the products contained lead and cadmium. A similar case is made for plaintiff Christopher Lazazzaro in the lawsuit against The Hershey Company.
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