Crispy Garlic Cloves

DJ&A values food safety highly and is dedicated to ensuring the safety of its products. As part of the natural growing process foods grown in soil contain tiny amounts of naturally occurring elements such as cadmium, which are found in the soil. Plants absorb these minerals, along with other essential nutrients, through their roots and as a result, trace levels of these minerals may be present in many food items including  fish, meats, grains, fruits, and vegetables.

The levels of these elements found in DJ&A products are within the USA FDA requirements and are fit for human consumption according to the FDA.
 

The state of California has implemented a law called the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, also known as Proposition 65. This law, which only applies to California consumers, mandates that any product sold in the state must carry warning labels about exposure to a list of substances listed by the state. The warnings required by Prop 65 are sometimes triggered by even trace amounts of listed chemicals.
 

The levels set by California’s Prop 65 laws are much lower than the safe levels in food established by the FDA and other health organizations around the world.
 

Past legal appeals have argued that there is a lack of evidence that the low safe harbour levels set by the state actually cause cancer in humans. The state of California has introduced exceptions to the Prop 65 law in relation to these legal appeals for certain food types such as the coffee and cereal.
 

As far as we are aware there have been no legal appeals started for vegetables such as shiitake mushroom and therefore we must add the warning label to certain products such as our shiitake mushroom product. We hope that there will be an appeal in California to show that shiitake mushrooms such as ours do not cause cancer. As this is an expensive and lengthy legal exercise we do not expect this situation to change in the near future.

California's Prop 65 official website can be found here.
 

https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/about-proposition-65

California’s Prop. 65 Fact Sheet for Foods can be found here:

https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/fact-sheets/foods