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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

9 Post author: Transfuturist 15 August 2015 10:45PM

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Comment author: Dorikka 17 August 2015 01:51:20AM 0 points [-]

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

Comment author: Lumifer 17 August 2015 02:32:53AM *  1 point [-]

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...