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4. Spices. Spices like turmeric, paprika, and chili powder can contain lead, sometimes at alarming levels. A lot of this contamination comes from poor farming practices, where spices are grown in ...
Consumer Reports noted that New York regulates heavy metals in spices and that 1 part per million of lead is the minimum threshold to trigger a recall. Two types of cinnamon powder had nearly ...
A year after recalled applesauce pouches containing cinnamon left more than 500 kids with lead poisoning, new research is offering further cause for concern regarding the popular spice used in ...
Lead may be found in food when food is grown in soil that is high in lead, airborne lead contaminates the crops, animals eat lead in their diet, or lead enters the food either from what it was stored or cooked in. [111] Ingestion of lead paint and batteries is also a route of exposure for livestock, which can subsequently affect humans. [112]
It is illegal to add lead to food that is sold in the U.S., but it is still found in some foods and spices. Spices imported from outside the U.S. are more likely to have high levels of lead.
In 2019, it was discovered that lead chromate was widely added to turmeric sold in Bangladesh to enhance its yellow color, which was largely responsible for consistently high lead poisoning rates in the country and prompted a government crackdown. By 2021, the practice had been eradicated in the country, and blood lead levels had dropped. [14]
Mustafa Al-Khaled, a Norfolk, Nebraska, civil engineer, sued WanaBana LLC because his 17-month-old son, Arian, was diagnosed with acute lead poisoning after eating the pouches regularly since August.
A nationwide recall of WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree linked to dozens of cases of lead poisoning has renewed concerns about the amount of lead in food.The Food and Drug Administration is ...