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The FDA tested retail samples of spices to determine whether other products were contaminated. The new recalls are raising questions about the safety of cinnamon, a popular spice found in many ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is gathering information on products of Indian spice makers MDH and Everest after Hong Kong halted sales of some of their products for allegedly ...
“The FDA has set no formal regulation for the amount of lead in spices but to date has never issued a consumer alert or recall for spice products containing lead at a level below 2 parts per ...
A new investigation by Consumer Reports has found that 12 brands of cinnamon powder and multi-spice blends contained high levels of lead. ... The Food and Drug Administration announced recalls of ...
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 ...
James E. Rogers, PhD, director and acting head of product safety testing at Consumer Reports, says that the company decided to test lead levels in cinnamon after the FDA’s recall of both ground ...
The results showed that 12 of these products had lead levels above 1 ppm, which is the threshold for recalls in New York, the only state with specific regulations for heavy metals in spices.
More cinnamon products have been recalled by the FDA. Westend61 / Getty Images An ongoing cinnamon recall now includes three additional brands, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).