A child would need to eat 9,000 cookies in a day to approach harmful levels of pesticide or naturally occurring heavy metals.
(NEXSTAR) — A painfully short but pleasantly sweet time of year is back again — no, we’re not talking about tax season or Mardi Gras. It’s something even better: Girl Scout cookie season.
Lab analysis of 25 Girl Scout cookies found trace amounts of five toxic metals and an herbicide, two consumer groups said. Are they safe to eat?