Health authorities are now investigating at least 205 cases of lead poisonings across 33 different states linked to contaminated applesauce, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday. That’s up from 125 cases in the agency’s last weekly tally.
The growing case count comes as the Food and Drug Administration continues its probe into the source of the tainted cinnamon blamed for the contamination. The FDA has faced “limited jurisdiction” in Ecuador, where the FDA says it cannot take “direct action” to investigate some of those suspected to be behind the poisonings.
State health departments reporting cases to CDC now also include Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington — along with more than 20 other states that previously reported cases.
WTF are you talking about, no such thing is happening and CERTAINLY not in this case. The FDA is still in charge of this stuff. The tainted cinnamon is coming out of Ecuador, which I may remind you is NOT part of the United States, and was produced by an Equadorian company called Negasmart.