I am soooo worried right now!
I am half way of finishing decorating some chocolates with luster dust.
I took a class and it was mentioned you can decorate with it...
I went to the store and asked the colors I wanted to decorate these chocolates...
I am assuming this powder can be eaten... then WHY on the label of this powder I am reading FOR DECORATION ONLY??
Does that mean it can not be eaten???
Does that mean there two kinds of luster dust? The one you can eat and the one that you can not eat...
I bought several containers (luster dust and pearl dust) do not state "FOR DECORATION ONLY"
I feel sooo stupid asking these questions...
Can anybody help???
Luster dust is edible, but it isn't a food source and it has no nutritional components. It just passes through without good or bad effects.
Everything is fine and everyone will be fine, too.
Rae
Thank you for your responses...
I was freaking out because I also found this on the net...
It is from a website that sells luster dust
Please note the colors indicated by * contain Iron Blue or Chromium Oxide and must be labeled "for decorative use only."
you might die if you ate a 20lb bucket of the stuff, but i think it is just for liablitity reasons- theyve got to say they did their part and warned you not to eat metal. but come on, its not like you are chewing on a crowbar.
take it "with a grain of salt" and do what your conscience tells you 
I don't know what to tell you. I used to not worry about it, but now that I am pregnant I feel myself not wanting to eat the stuff, just on the ever so slight off chance that I might hurt the baby - just not worth it in my opinion. However, I DO still want to use it for my holiday cookies and stuff. I don't know if I should warn people ( i don't feel ike eating it because I am pregnant and it might be toxic, but you go right ahead?), just not use it, or what. Sorry I don't have better advice for you, but I do worry about some of the metal content in these things, especially since I know so little about it. Haven't decided what I will do yet.
same concern brittanydear...the chocolates are for a baby shower (light blue little boots)... and since i am planning to have a baby soon... I had the same concern.
Now the chocolates with the blue luster dust are in the trash ( they look just adorable!)
ok ladies, i hear you on the safety...when i was pregnant (several times) i watched my diet like a hawk). perhaps try dry dusting it rather than painting it. it is such an incredibly small amount. use the bottles that dont say FOR DECORATION ONLY- i think typically it is the metal colors that say that. try the pearl with just a light dusting.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-54059-difference.html+petal+dust+luster+dust
Here is my explanation. Hope it helps.
Not sure if this is quite on topic, but I worry about this a lot.... 
Does anyone else wonder why we worry so much about tiny amounts of luster dusts once in a while, but don't give a thought to all the artificial colors and flavors that are in almost all the packaged foods we buy? 
All those petroleum based colors we take for granted are thought by many to contirbute to the high percentages of ADD and ADHD in the US.
Most of us don't eat decorated cakes every day, but we do eat a lot of packaged snack foods.
I believe that in Europe, luster dusts are consideed edible while in the US they are "for decoration only" Meanwhile, many colors and flavors that are consdiered OK here are not OK in other places and vice versa. It ought to make us think what the food lobbies are getting away with..... and about we are feeding our children and ourselves on a dialy basis, not just what we eat when we are pregnant.
Getting off my soapbox now
[quote="itsacake"]Not sure if this is quite on topic, but I worry about this a lot....
Does anyone else wonder why we worry so much about tiny amounts of luster dusts once in a while, but don't give a thought to all the artificial colors and flavors that are in almost all the packaged foods we buy?
i was thinking the same thing.
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