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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.
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 ...
In addition to the dozen brands with levels above 1 ppm of lead, 18 brands of various cinnamons or spice blends contained levels of lead ranging from 0.87 ppm to 0.23 ppm, according to the report ...
Lead is widely understood to be toxic to multiple organs of the human body, particularly the human brain. Concerns about even low levels of exposure began in the 1970s; in the decades since, scientists have concluded that no safe threshold for lead exposure exists. [2] [3] The major source of lead exposure during the 20th century was leaded ...
Check your spice cabinet. A new investigation by Consumer Reports found that 12 brands of cinnamon powder and multi-spice blends contained high levels of lead, posing potential health risks to ...
In May 2015, the Food and Drug Administration representatives from Barabanki, a district of Uttar Pradesh, India stated that samples of the product Maggi 2-Minute Noodles had unusually excessive levels of lead. This finding led to multiple market withdrawals and investigations in India and beyond.
Seeds treated with methylmercury as a fungicide for planting were used as food 1981: 1981 Spain rapeseed oil toxicity: rapeseed oil: possibly aniline: Spain ~25,000: 600: Industrial oil sold as food oil. [32] 1955: Morinaga milk arsenic poisoning [33] [34] powdered milk: arsenic: Japan: 13,389 >600
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 ...