You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

HungryHobo 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

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (40)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: HungryHobo 17 August 2015 11:21:57AM 0 points [-]

You'd think so but in the past that hasn't always been the case. In the UK they had the tesco-horse-meat thing (meat was supposed to be beef) and in ireland there was a case where huge quantities of animal feed were contaminated and as a result meat from the animals was quite highly contaminated and there was a massive recall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Irish_pork_crisis

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 17 August 2015 01:47:55PM *  0 points [-]

But that seems to be the exception not the rule. What percentage (0..1) of mass products (counting product line, not item) do you think fails your minimum QA?

I think at least this number fails my QA criteria

I think at most this number fails my QA criteria

(give 0.0 and 1.0 to see results)

Submitting...

Comment author: HungryHobo 17 August 2015 04:59:38PM *  0 points [-]

Well, going on research run by a government council rather than a PA firm for a supermarket or retailer...

http://www.leicester.gov.uk/news/news-story-details?nId=81297

Removed actual figure so that people can guess before clicking through.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 17 August 2015 08:09:43PM 0 points [-]

Hm, that is interesting but addresses the opposite of mass products: locally produced and labelled meat products. For those my estimates would look much different.

Comment author: HungryHobo 18 August 2015 10:38:50AM 0 points [-]

Where did it say they were locally produced? Takeaways don't normally slaughter their own lamb.

Normally they buy from wholesalers and large suppliers.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 18 August 2015 07:51:55PM 0 points [-]

Right and the the mass product chain thus ends at the wholesaler.