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I always get a laugh at the GMO-free logo on Corn products
Not going to spend an hour on this, but detectable does not mean dangerous. All samples in the report I skimmed were not dangerous levels of arsenic according to the EPA ( < 10 ppb ) after a quick Google search.
Special interest groups fanning flames? Meh, probably; moving on. Cookies tasty.
This reminds me of the heavy metals in vapes studies where the news articles were freaking out, but if you looked at the actual numbers most were less than atmospheric levels.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/12/girl-scout-cookies-toxic/
No one can eat 9,000 a day?
I dunno, I worked with a guy who hoovered up oreos like that was the reason he worked there. I can't say if he ever hit 9,000 in a shift, but I wasn't always within line of sight.
Well not with that attitude, anyway
I mean, the Thin Mints are pretty good.
I accept your challenge.
This is shit, I looked at the EU limits on cadmium/lead per the lab reports https://gmoscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GSC-HeavyMetalsReports.pdf and EU limits https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32023R0915 (mg/kg == ppm, ug/kg == ppb) and their heavy metal amounts are very low.
For the aluminum the EU recommends 1 mg/kg per week on avg - but this EU report makes clear that ~10 mg/kg in baked goods is the norm https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2008.754 . So that’s even fine.
I don’t care to go into the pesticides but since the metal levels are good to fine but presented as horrendous, I would suspect the pesticide levels are overinflated as well.
"Oh damn, that's unbelievable," I said before eating another whole box of thin mints.
Not gonna say GS are infallible, but there's probably a venn diagram with this group and people who think GS exploits children for profit.
Explains why they taste so bad
The cookies in my box :
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