The brands of cinnamon are typically sold at discount retailers, such as Save a Lot, Family Dollar and Dollar Tree. The alert follows the recalls of 3 brands of cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches.
This combination of photos provided by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday shows cinnamon products sold in U.S. discount stores which contain elevated levels of lead.The Food and Drug Administration has issued an advisory for six brands of cinnamon due to possibly containing lead.
La Fiesta, Marcum, MK, Swad, Supreme Tradition and El Chilar brands of ground cinnamon are typically sold at discount stores and contain between 2.03 and 3.4 parts per million of lead, the agency said.it has recommended voluntary recalls of the cinnamon products, but one manufacturer, MTCI, the distributor of MK cinnamon, has not responded to the agency's correspondence.Consumers should discard the impacted cinnamon products, which include:MK brand, no lot number provided.
"Historically, lead chromate has been illegally added to certain spices" to increase their weight and enhance their color,"which increases the monetary value of the adulterated spices,"in a recent update on that inquiry."FDA's leading hypothesis remains that this was likely an act of economically motivated adulteration."reports of 468 confirmed, probable or suspected cases of people with elevated blood lead levels from health departments in 44 states.
The FDA says lead contamination was traced to products from a cinnamon processing company called Carlos Aguilera of Ecuador — where regulators say the company in question is no longer operating. Ecuadorian officials also say unprocessed cinnamon sticks imported from Sri Lanka did not contain lead, according to the agency.
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