The Food and Drug Administration has discovered a second metal contaminant—chromium—in the recalled cinnamon applesauce pouches found to contain cinnamon contaminated with extremely high levels of ...

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Jenna Forsyth is a research scientist at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. She tells Times Evoke about her discovery of lead added to turmeric, its effects — and how this hazardous practice ...

The FDA has confirmed that lead chromate is the source of lead and chromium in cinnamon applesauce marketed for children and imported from Ecuador. Leaders at the FDA continue to believe the ...

Feb. 29 (UPI) --The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it has confirmed that lead and chromium in applesauce from Ecuador manufacturer Austrofoods are from lead chromate. The FDA said in a ...

ENVIRONMENTAL health and justice groups EcoWaste Coalition and International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) on Dec. 27 ...

BASF plans to stop producing lead chromate pigments by the end of 2014. The firm says its lead chromate plant in Besigheim, Germany, will become a hub for replacements that offer the same yellow and ...

PALO ALTO, California (WPVI) -- Turmeric has been billed as a health booster and healing agent. However, Stanford University researchers have found a very unhealthy element in some of it: lead. They ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Before the heat of the day set in, dozens of people were already gathered under a large banyan tree at the twice-weekly turmeric market in Ataikula, ...