RECALLED LEAD-TAINTED APPLESAUCES HAVE POISONED HUNDREDS OF KIDS

Attention parents…check your pantries to see if you have any of these recalled lead-tainted applesauces in stock: WanaBana, Schnucks and Weis brand cinnamon applesauce pouches. These products have been recalled as a result of poisoning 400 children and should be tossed immediately and not given to anyone in your household. Images of recalled applesauces. PHOTO: NCDOG.GOV “If you’ve purchased these recalled products and may still have them in your homes, do not feed them to children or anyone else,” read the recent food safety advisory issued by the FDA in conjunction with North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein who wanted to warn customers. These tainted pouches have led to numerous children in 44 states being exposed to dangerously high levels of led. To provide a measurable comparison, per the New York Post, this figure was six times greater than the average during the Flint Michigan water crisis. Baby eating. PEXELS.COM Neal Fortin, director of the Institute for Food Laws and Regulations at Michigan State University shard with the Post, “It’s amazing in a bad sense what a catastrophic failure this was,” he lamented. So, just how did this latest contamination happen? Well, also according to the Post, the FDA initially...