I’ve recently started cooking Korean food in an attempt to try some dishes that are not easy to find at restaurants near me. However, I have one concern: literally every Korean product that I buy at our Asian grocery store says that it contains lead/cadmium and that it causes cancer. This includes gochujang, chunjang, doenjang, jjajiangmyeon noodles, etc – most of which are Assi brand. Normally I don’t pay much attention to all of the Prop 65 warnings, but “leaded food” sounds REALLY bad – and we’re feeding all of our meals to our toddler and 1yr old, so I don’t really want for them to be eating lead/cadmium. I’m less worried about myself, and more concerned about feeding things to them.
So I wanted to ask: is there any information on why these warnings are there, or what concentrations were actually measured in these products? Do these products actually contain lead in any appreciable concentration? Or is this just another “Prop 65 failure” where they label literally anything and everything?
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