So today I want to talk about a very interesting topic.

The lead in nutritional supplements.

Now there's a California regulation called Prop 65.

It's known as the Safe Drinking Water in Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.

So it's probably a really good idea when they started it 25 years ago.

But now it's kind of gotten out of hand because now it involves over 900 different chemicals.

And so this bypasses the FDA and they have their own guidelines or thresholds that you can't

go over in certain chemicals and heavy metals, etc.

And so certain companies are forced to put warning labels on their products.

So the labels say something like ingestion of this product is known to Californians

to cause potential cancers or reproductive harm.

Now what's really fascinating to me about this Prop 65 is that let's just take lead for

example.

The FDA allows 12 micrograms of lead to be consumed per day if you're an adult.

If you're a child it's three micrograms.

But if you're in California because of this Prop 65 the threshold is 0.5 as far as creating

some reproductive toxicity.

So the FDA allows 12 micrograms per day and Prop 65 allows 0.5 micrograms per day as far

as their limit.

Now it's almost impossible to differentiate the naturally occurring lead that comes from

the soil versus lead that comes from pollution.

So anything grown in the soil is bound to have a certain amount of lead in it.

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