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- The Florida Department of Health released results under the Healthy Florida First initiative from testing 46 candy products purchased from stores and online.
- The Florida Department of Health framed the findings as information for families about products widely marketed to children and noted that repeated exposure above those benchmarks can raise risks of cancer and neurodevelopmental effects.
- A child could reach the state's annual safe‑exposure figure by eating one movie‑theater box of Nerds, four pieces of banana Laffy Taffy, or similar small amounts of related items such as SweeTarts and Trolli.
- The Florida Department of Health reported concentrations in the hundreds of parts per billion for several Ferrara Candy Company products.
- Arsenic was detected in 28 of the tested candy products.
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Origin: first recognised while reading Florida Department of Health finds arsenic in Ferrara candies like Nerds and Laffy Taffy at levels that can exceed a child's yearly safe intake in one box or a few pieces, leading to dismissed disclosure lawsuits · 2026-10-12 00:23