By replacing sugar with lead, they can claim “no added sugar” and have their product still tasty and therefore desirable and selling well by adding something not tested for. It’s just good business sense really… of course, this shows the problems inherent in profit seeking.
Horrifying. I’ve heard some lead compounds taste sweet, but wtf? How about sugar or just artificial sweetener even?
By replacing sugar with lead, they can claim “no added sugar” and have their product still tasty and therefore desirable and selling well by adding something not tested for. It’s just good business sense really… of course, this shows the problems inherent in profit seeking.
Turns out to be not good business sense as they got caught, and it’s likely to destroy the brands as well as the manufacturer.
Ya, “good business sense” is so often one of those things that is only good in a very short-sighted selfish way that ends up being criminal.
Maybe it’s cheaper
Probably, but that’s some very extreme penny pinching.
I don’t know tbh.
At scale saving fractions of a penny makes a big difference.
They could even get paid to cleanup lead for another company.