Hershey's chocolate bars are shown in this photo illustration in Encinitas, California, on Jan 29, 2015.HERSHEY, Pennsylvania - Hershey Co is looking to reduce "trace" amounts of lead and cadmium in its chocolate, chief financial officer Steve Voskiul told Reuters on Wednesday , after Consumer Reports found that some dark chocolate bars had potentially harmful levels of the heavy metals.
The trace amounts of the metals found in some chocolate are "below any recommended level, any standard," Voskuil said, adding that lead and cadmium are elements in soil and can naturally occur in the product. "We would love to eradicate it completely and continue to look for opportunities in the process, is there more we can do there," he said on the sidelines of the Reese's makers' investor day.Consumer Reports found that Hershey's Lily's extremely dark chocolate 85 per cent cocoa bar was high in lead and cadmium. Its Hershey's Special Dark mildly sweet chocolate and Lily's extra dark chocolate 70 per cent were also high in lead according to the report.
Hershey is "evaluating" if it can remove more of the metals through additional cleaning of cocoa beans or alternate sourcing, he said.
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