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How so, they contain higher than the recommended levels of some bad stuff. Seems fairly cut and dry?
 
robj20 said:
Because you wouldn't eat a lot of food if you were concerned about heavy metals. Carrots are among the highest, rice is bad as well.
Root vegetables are among the worst.
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That’s true, but the concern to me, at face value, is the concentrated quantity of it.

Don’t forget, Huel black is 400 calories, so in theory an individual could be having 2 or more servings of it per day.


And because it’s a meal replacement, chances are you’re regularly ingesting the concentrated levels of heavy metals, leading to long term exposure, which is where the risks lay.



After a quick skim my questions are:

- Test methodology?
- Independently verified?
- How are they quantifying safe levels? How does it compare to other standards across the world?



Nevertheless, articles like this are a good thing - they challenge the perspective of people and help hold companies accountable for the health of consumers.


Otherwise, we’d end up with DuPont doing DuPont things.



We need open criticism to force the hand of the manufacturers to prove that the investigations are at worst wrong or at best misleading.
 
MrRockliffe said:
That’s true, but the concern to me, at face value, is the concentrated quantity of it.

Don’t forget, Huel black is 400 calories, so in theory an individual could be having 2 or more servings of it per day.


And because it’s a meal replacement, chances are you’re regularly ingesting the concentrated levels of heavy metals, leading to long term exposure, which is where the risks lay.



After a quick skim my questions are:

- Test methodology?
- Independently verified?
- How are they quantifying safe levels? How does it compare to other standards across the world?



Nevertheless, articles like this are a good thing - they challenge the perspective of people and help hold companies accountable for the health of consumers.


Otherwise, we’d end up with DuPont doing DuPont things.



We need open criticism to force the hand of the manufacturers to prove that the investigations are at worst wrong or at best misleading.
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They already have the limit here in the UK is 135mg per day and Huel only ever recommend a couple of servings a day at most so well under the limit at 12.6mg.

Huel have also said the running average for Huel Black and lead per serving is 1.8mg.
 
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Seems a reasonable approach to be fair.

We used the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) Maximum Allowable Dose Levels (MADL) as our benchmarks for CR’s levels of concern for cadmium and lead. MADLs are levels established through California’s Proposition 65 law. CR uses these values because the standards are the most protective of health. A easured level greater than 100% of CR level of concern indicates that consumption of that serving amount per day would pose a comparatively higher health risk.
However, while we use the MADLs involved in Prop 65, we approach our exposure assessment differently from what’s outlined in Prop 65. Prop 65 takes into consideration consumers’ average exposure over time and dietary frequency to calculate whether a product exceeds the MADL and requires a warning label.
By contrast, Consumer Reports assumes the label recommended daily serving of the product in its risk assessment calculations. This difference in methodology means no Prop 65 judgments can be made from CR’s findings. Our results are meant to provide guidance on which products have comparatively higher levels of lead, not to identify the point at which lead exposure will have measurable harmful health effects, or to assess compliance with California law.
Arsenic: Noncancer exposure risks were calculated by the Hazard Quotient (HQ) Method and the following equation: HQ = Exposure Dose/Reference Dose. An HQ >1 would indicate that consumption of one serving per day would pose a comparatively higher health risk. We estimated a 70-kilogram (154-pound) adult’s intake
of total arsenic from the tested levels in a serving of each product and compared the intake estimate to the exposure limit for inorganic arsenic.
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