Girl Scouts tuned after the study is said to find heavy metals and pesticides in cookies

A woman in New York has aroused a mood against Girl Scouts in the United States, claiming that they sell cookies contaminated with heavy metals.

The plaintiff, Amy Mayo, filed the complaint about group action on Monday 10 March and asked for $ 5 million from Girl scouts And their cookie manufacturer, Ferrero and ABC Bakers. In the costume, Mayo claims that Girl Scouts “produce and distribute products that are contaminated with dangerous heavy metals, including aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury … and pesticides, including glyphosate.”

The suit continues and points to “extensive testing” carried out in 2024 which claimed that “100% of the products contained at least four out of five heavy metals” and other “extremely problematic” results. The tested cookies came from California, Iowa and Louisiana to “ensure the validity of the testing and mitigate for confusing variables” but the results were “similar or the same”, according to the filing.

Girl scouts released a statement February 6 in response to the concerns. The announcement claims that “Girl Scout cakes are safe to consume and be manufactured in accordance with all food safety regulations” and that heavy metals can occur naturally in soil and volumes of glyphosate are found in products. “These metals are not added to our Girl Scout cakes,” the statement states.

The study, conducted by consumer groups Gmoscience and Moms all over AmericaTested 25 boxes with cookies. They tested 11 types of cookies: adventure, caramel delites (also known as Samoas), peanut butter sandwich (also known as Do-Si-dos), girl scout s’mores, Limar, lemon-ups, peanut butterpaties (also known as tagalons), toast-toast-yay!

The atmosphere mentions that the organization sells $ 1 billion annually and that the desserts are marketed and sold by children.

The study’s controversial results circulated on TikTok earlier this year, with some users on social media claiming that the FDA recalled the cookies, but one Forbes The article said this is false. The same article put some of the results in perspective and explained that the study compared the results with EPA water safety standards, which do not apply to food, rather than the FDA food safety standards.

“FDA and USDA allow both remnants of pesticides and metals in foods at levels that are considered non-harmful,” the article continued, saying “based on the present FDA regulationsThere is no evidence that the cookies pose a health risk. ”