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The FDA is warning parents to test their children after lead is found in WanaBana fruit puree pouches | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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[–] walden 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How does lead end up in apple sauce?

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Older orchards are contaminated with lead arsenate from its use as a pesticide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_hydrogen_arsenate

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Watering the groves from cheap pipes.

[–] Terces@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Neglect?

[–] deo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] walden 1 points 1 year ago

Oh this makes sense, especially since it's only the Cinnamon flavor.