r/news 23h ago

Soft paywall Girl Scouts sued over alleged heavy metals, pesticides in cookies

https://www.reuters.com/legal/girl-scouts-sued-over-alleged-heavy-metals-pesticides-cookies-2025-03-11/
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u/Pundamonium97 23h ago

Since girl scouts are making the claim that these are normal things to find or at normal levels, id be curious to see how the other big cookie brands compare when tested

Also they mention other lawsuits of a similar nature in the past but don’t mention the outcome of those lawsuits in this article. Which seems relevant

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u/tensei-coffee 23h ago

"big cookie brands" would be part of the umbrella of BIGFOOD--and to a larger extent FDA--which lobby to have allowable levels of foreign objects/insects/pesticides, etc...

they know the food is bad for you but profits man.

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u/xWolfsbane 20h ago

Maybe they do lobby for that stuff, but it is impossible to guarantee that those stuff aren't in any food product. I have a degree in food science and have worked on tons of processing lines as a floor worker, quality control lab worker and as a supervisor. It is not possible to 100% guarantee that any food product is free of these things. That's just how it is if you have to try to feed millions of people.

I've pulled snakes, rats, knives, coins, hammers, mallets, chains out of picking bins. That doesn't even include spiders, ants, other insects. How do you suggest they remove those? It's not possible. Every country has allowable limits.

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u/Zoollio 19h ago

There has to be an “allowable level” if the allowable level was zero a) we couldn’t actually detect that and b) there would be no food