{"id":1202790,"date":"2023-11-14T10:51:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1202790"},"modified":"2023-11-14T10:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:51:03","slug":"lead-tainted-fruit-pouches-poison-22-toddlers-blood-lead-levels-8x-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1202790","title":{"rendered":"Lead-tainted fruit pouches poison 22 toddlers; blood lead levels 8X threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lead-apple-11032023-2.png\" alt=\"The three pouches so far linked to lead contamination.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lead-apple-11032023.png\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"430\" data-width=\"800\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> The three pouches so far linked to lead contamination. (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/outbreaks-foodborne-illness\/investigation-elevated-lead-levels-applesauce-pouches-november-2023\">FDA<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>At least 22 toddlers across at least 14 states have suffered acute lead poisoning linked to recalled apple cinnamon fruit puree pouch products found to contain &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2023\/11\/toxic-toddler-fruit-pouches-extremely-high-lead-levels-sicken-7-in-5-states\/\">extremely high levels of lead<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The products contained such high lead levels that some of the poisoned toddlers showed blood lead levels as high as 29 micrograms per deciliter (\u00b5g\/dL), roughly eight-fold above the federal reference level of 3.5 \u00b5g\/dL to identify children at high exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Given that at least one of the recalled products (WanaBana) was sold nationally and through multiple retailers, including Amazon and Dollar Tree, it&#8217;s likely that there are more cases in more states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1983643#p3\">Read 7 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1983643&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1983643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lead-tainted fruit pouches poison 22 toddlers; blood lead levels 8X threshold<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ The three pouches so far linked to lead contamination. (credit: FDA) At least 22 toddlers across at least 14 states have suffered acute lead poisoning linked to recalled apple cinnamon fruit puree pouch products found to contain &#8220;extremely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1202790\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1202791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1202790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}