Every fear mongering story I've seen cover it has focused mostly on how this will impact children. But, since his point still got the attention of a bunch of obnoxious viewers, a consumer report was conducted which is whats started this current fuss.Īs far as I'm concerned its a bunch of rubbish. People raised a fuss about how ridiculous this concern is and the issue disappeared for a bit. Basically he went on his show, told his audience (mostly comprised of stay at home moms, and old women I'd assume) and presented his "SHOCKING NEWS ABOUT APPLE JUICE!!!!". Oz (that funny looking dude that use to show up on Oparah and then got his own daytime talk show) started this whole thing a couple weeks ago. It's still not going to stop me from buying apple juiceįrom what I understand, Dr. Maybe my hair is a bird and my argument is invalid. If I'm correct about arsenic naturally occurring in apples, maybe this is why the numbers are higher than "bottle water standards"? Apple juice is not bottle water. No federal limits exist for the amount of arsenic or lead. As with arsenic, no federal limit exists for lead in juice." "There’s no federal arsenic threshold for juice or most foods, though the limit for bottled and public water is 10 ppb.", "One in four samples had lead levels higher than the FDA’s bottled-water limit of 5 ppb. But it's still not going to stop me from buying apple juiceĮDIT: Ok, just read the first page. I would think that by simply drinking faucet water, you may get numbers like that. Is 10 ppb arsenic and 5 ppb lead within safe levels? 10 and 5 ppb seems like a really small number. I thought arsenic naturally occurred in apples, especially the seeds, but it's way within safe levels.
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