How Much Lead Is Getting Into Canada?
Lead is bad. While in Canada our government continues to supervise the issue we still don’t know what happens in other countries. In fact, a recent article in the Food Safety Magazine states:
In this new era of global food trade, FDA will have to acquire a better understanding of food ingredients and food production practices in other countries. Some countries have not imposed controls on uses of lead within their own borders. Given the potential for lead to be used in a wide variety of agricultural and industrial applications abroad, increased food imports from countries that have yet to put lead exposure controls in place for their own populations could potentially raise U.S. consumers’ exposure to lead once again.
Mexican candies containing lead based wrappers were discovered in 1994 and is cited in the article as an example of what we should watch out for when importing products.
It would be hard to imagine that third world countries would have the same standards for lead screening in food products.
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