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Lumifer comments on Soylent has been found to contain lead (12-25x) and cadmium (≥4x) in greater concentrations than California's 'safe harbor' levels - Less Wrong Discussion
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Because they don't mean anything and they only serve to desensitise people to warning labels.
When I get a power strip at a corner store and it has a big label which says "WARNING: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm." I can only roll my eyes and marvel at the stupidity.
I hope these people won't hear about the dangerous chemical called dihydrogen monoxide...
Got it. Do you know of a sane set of guidelines that I can reference?
You'll have to be more specific: what kind of guidelines do you want and what's "sane" to you? :-)
Lower threshold on safe doses of lead and other contaminants for frequent and infrequent consumption. Mostly just wanted to check if you knew of any such guidelines that you considered sane. :P
No, not really -- in the sense that I consider most such government standards in the first world to be "good enough" provided they cluster around some average. If I were to deep-dive into some particular contaminant, I would probably start with medical literature to check at which level noticeably bad things start to happen...