'Dangerous' Lead Levels Found In Candy
Sold In San Diego Area
City News Service,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner,
2/5/2022 10:24:44 AM
SAN DIEGO, CA — The California Attorney General's Office issued a consumer alert Friday related to dried plum fruit and candy products that allegedly contain dangerous levels of lead, including several products sold by San Diego retailers.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office said it has sent letters directing retailers to immediately remove the products from shelves, many of which appear to be marketed to children.
The AG's Office says testing revealed many of the products contained lead levels that "far exceed"
Reply 1 - Posted by:
singermom9 2/5/2022 10:26:02 AM (No. 1062340)
From Mexico or Mexicans right?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PageTurner 2/5/2022 10:29:17 AM (No. 1062345)
...or some other fourth world dump nobody regulates and is probably operated by the Chicoms. Don't buy this candy:
-- El Chavito Saladitos Enchilados Salted Plums W/Chili;
-- El Leoncito Ponchin Saladitos con Chile/Dry Salted Plums with Chili;
-- El Super Leon Saladitos/Dry Salted Plums with Chili & Chamoy;
-- Hola Lobito Fresco Ciruela Salada Sabor Limon/Lemon Flavored Salted Plum;
-- La Fiesta Saladitos Con Chile/Salted Plums with Chili.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BRDG 2/5/2022 10:49:20 AM (No. 1062368)
Lead tainted candy from MEXICO was an issue when I was in San Diego WAAAY back in the 1970s
Nobody on either side of the border will lift a finger to punish the offenders.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lftrn97 2/5/2022 11:17:35 AM (No. 1062401)
Traditional Amish treats?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
cor-vet 2/5/2022 11:17:35 AM (No. 1062402)
Just wondering if the 'dangerous' lead levels in Kalifornia are the same as the 'dangerous' lead levels in saner states are?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/5/2022 11:35:28 AM (No. 1062429)
Sounds like products imported from Ireland?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
PostAway 2/5/2022 11:50:44 AM (No. 1062448)
From the California State attorney’s Office a list of recalled items (Mexican and Chinese):
Alamo Candy Saladitos Con Limon/Dried Salted Plums with Lemon
Chan Pui Hua He Ying (Plum Candy)
Chan Pui Mui Preserved Plum – Chinese Traditional Food
Chan Pui Ying Che Preserved Plum (Seedless) – Chinese Traditional Food
Dandy’s Dried Sweet Plum
El Chavito Saladitos Enchilados Salted Plums W/Chili
El Leoncito Ponchin Saladitos con Chile/Dry Salted Plums with Chili
El Super Leon Saladitos/Dry Salted Plums with Chili & Chamoy
Hola Lobito Fresco Ciruela Salada Sabor Limon/Lemon Flavored Salted Plum
La Fiesta Saladitos Con Chile/Salted Plums with Chili
Lupag Saladitos Con Chile/Chile Salted Plums
Spice and Chili Saladitos with Chili
Snackerz Saladitos (Salted Plums)
SnakYard Dried Plums/Saladitos
Tolteca Saladitos Con Chile Y Limon
Tolteca Saladitos Salted Dried Plums
Yu Fu Tang Preserved Plums WongChoy Yingzi Gift Bag
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/5/2022 12:01:18 PM (No. 1062462)
Mexican candy... welcomed by liberals into the USA.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/5/2022 12:13:28 PM (No. 1062480)
From China, getting rid of their toxic waste, Via Mexico!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 2/5/2022 12:18:47 PM (No. 1062490)
"Dose makes the poison". So - exactly what amounts of lead? They say "far in excess of 0.5 micrograms/day". OK, maybe this is real. Maybe eating one candy bar is bad news. But did they assume eating 1 or 25 candy bars a day as their dose? At this point, having been lied to continuously by "health experts" for two years, I am predisposed to assume that they are lying for some political gain until proven otherwise.
The REAL question is: Does the level of a toxin ingested over time reach the threshold of dose that causes harm? Too many "health care" liars out there for me to assume that this is real and just "take their word for it".
What is "far in excess" of 0.5 micrograms? 0.7 micrograms a day? Or 1,000 micrograms a day? How many candy bars must be eaten to get that dose? One or forty?
If a small child eats one candy bar - what will their blood lead level be? Will it be in the safe range for children, which is much lower than the safe range for adults?
0.5 micrograms of lead is 0.5 millionths of a gram. About two ounces is a fairly normal candy bar, about 57 grams. So, 0.5 micrograms of lead in 57 grams is about 8-9 parts of lead per billion in a 2 ounce candy bar. I'm starting to smell a rat. A political rat. Almost nothing is actually harmful at the parts per billion levels (ppb).
Lead is a common "boogy man" for those seeking political gains from Fake News. EPA "Safe levels" of lots of materials have been dramatically lowered (like 100 or 1,000 times lower) in recent decades - mostly because the detection technology is better and it makes more work and control for EPA - NOT because the old "safe levels" were proven unsafe. The idea that "food and water must be pure"..... a very good goal, but to WHAT level of purity and at WHAT cost? Absolutely NOTHING is "pure" if you look hard enough with good enough instruments. Is one atom of lead in a ton of candy unsafe?
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cor-vet 2/5/2022 12:48:09 PM (No. 1062538)
Sorry for the 2nd post, but I'm 79 years old and I'm wondering if all the lead painted pencils and cribs I chewed on as a child, is getting close to my maximum allowable level? Of course, even if it were to kill me, I'd still die from covid!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Laotzu 2/5/2022 1:22:04 PM (No. 1062584)
Another NAFTA success story.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
AntiStatist 2/5/2022 1:59:23 PM (No. 1062620)
#2, but those are all of my favorites! I’m now a victim!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 2/5/2022 2:07:25 PM (No. 1062633)
Let me guess. The candy came from China. Years ago, a hospital had to throw out all of its little tube of toothpaste given to patients, because they found that the toothpaste was loaded with lead. That toothpaste came from China.
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Just don't try to eat the lead paint chips off the window sill. /s
Having done remodels in historic neighborhoods, we were required to abate all windows ( or anything friggin' painted) in a non- permeable tarpoline and transported to a governmental approved collection site for "disposal". There is a test kit for you to determine the lead in paint that is over a hundred years old. If your test turns pink, it's time to go underground and get rid of the debris in as inconspicuously as possible. And to cite U.B.C. and I.R.C. (Universal Building Code and International Residential Code) " No solders or flux which contain more than 6% ( might be 10 %) lead shall not be used in the plumbing supplying potable water to any residence."
That was code 30 years ago. We've come a long way in the hysteria politics. If there's no big problem, bureaucrats create one or take a regulation to the next level to attain job security. The LEEDS program was foist upon architects to make them conform to green building specs. It was like the Oscars for Dweebs. You could get your building certified as a Silver, Gold, or Platinum project based upon how well you were able to blow smoke up a client's pantsleg and how gullible the client was with the money required to achieve the metallic ring of desire.
I digress, far too many die of lead injection than from lead ingestion.
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You didn't think it was gonna be See's Candy, did you? So much for the Bidenites' plan to regulate every drop of food you eat.