date:Nov 06, 2017
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has released a report about lead contamination in imported candy. A state law has mandated testing of those products. A study published in Environmental Health Perspectives and conducted at the University of California San Fransisco (UCSF) found that CDPH issued more alerts for lead in candy than for the other top three sources of food-borne contamination combined.
The law that mandated testing was passed in 2006. Before that time, CDPH did not