The US Food and Drug Administration is warning parents against buying a brand of fruit puree pouches for their children because they may have contain high levels of lead, the agency said.
My money is on the cinnamon powder. Lead is kinda sweet, pretty common and quite heavy (and thus pretty cheaper per unit weight), and can make colorful pigments… if it wasn’t for the toxicity, it could have made quite the versatile food additive. It wouldn’t be the first time high levels of lead were found in dried spices/herbs; in fact, it’s unsettlingly common.
How does lead end up in apple sauce?
Older orchards are contaminated with lead arsenate from its use as a pesticide.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_hydrogen_arsenate
Watering the groves from cheap pipes.
Neglect?
My money is on the cinnamon powder. Lead is kinda sweet, pretty common and quite heavy (and thus pretty cheaper per unit weight), and can make colorful pigments… if it wasn’t for the toxicity, it could have made quite the versatile food additive. It wouldn’t be the first time high levels of lead were found in dried spices/herbs; in fact, it’s unsettlingly common.
Oh this makes sense, especially since it’s only the Cinnamon flavor.