Doctors and Retailing Products: Cadmium, Mercury, and Extra Virgin Olive Oil
When it comes to deciding what foods and nutritional supplements are worthy of your choice for consumption, it really depends upon the reasons you want to consume the substance and the quality of that substance. In the News today, we see that we now have ‘official’ standards for ‘extra virgin Olive Oil’ and a recall of McDonald’s Shrek glasses due to cadmium in the paint.
It’s not pretty, even though the images were designed to be fun and colorful – intriguing qualities to children and their parents who shell out the bucks for movie memorabilia at the fast food joints for their kids. Within weeks of promoting the Shrek movie glasses at McDonald’s, the concern about the poisonous toxins from the cadmium in the glasses has forced a recall. Seven million glasses have already been sold and are in the hands and mouths of innocent children who trust the adults to have checked these things out before releasing the products to the consumer. Fat chance of that happening on a regular basis…
You would have thought that manufacturers would have paid more attention to the recall of cadmium-tainted jewelry at WalMart and in mall stores just a few short months ago! But apparently it is too much to ask for them to take responsibility for putting the public at risk. So the watchdog organizations have to monitor and police these people who don’t really care THAT much if a child destroys a brain or red blood cell and continues to damage their health for the rest of their life, because they never realized that the health risk was real.
Any product that contains cadmium, nickel, mercury, lead, arsenic, or other heavy metals should be taken off the market and no new product should ever grace a store shelf again. Monetary compensation should also be provided, so people can pay to detoxify their bodies.
It’s a travesty not to have products that might come into contact with a child left untested or to cut corners to satisfy other considerations like cost or ease of production when a brain cannot be replaced and leads to a lifetime of compromised health. Heavy metals are known neural toxins and there’s is NO excuse for making these mistakes.
Products that come from foreign countries like China need to be monitored carefully. Their standards are not up to par. The jewelry with cadmium came from China. The glasses came from New Jersey, so please demand that industry leaders put higher standards into place and keep an eye on this from now on… How much is the trust and confidence of the consumer worth after all?
Just like Italy which has clear definitions about balsamic vinegar, now this country has defined ‘extra virgin Olive Oil’. This includes an acidity and a taste test, while fatty acid composition and an ultra violet light degree of absorption. These types of tests can determine the quality of the olive oil and separate them from nut and seed oils. This promotes greater integrity within the industry and a safety net for consumers who are learning the lingo.
In order for an oil to be considered healthy for us, it has to be organic and cold-pressed. We go with ‘extra virgin’ and like the first press of the olives for flavor and nutritional value. Olive Oil is as critical as your other healthy oils in cooking, salad, sauces, and bases for dressings. Choose wisely…
By the way, Liquid Zeolite is the substance of choice to remove cadmium and other heavy metals like mercury from your human body. It is the one you can rely upon to do the job…
