Guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration provide an interim reference level (IRL) for lead of 2.2 micrograms. The amount of lead found in these nuggets could be as much as five times higher than this IRL for children.
A recall was not requested because the products are no longer available for purchase. However, FSIS is concerned that some product may still be in consumers’ freezers.
You ate them already. Sorry.
—Walmart
I don’t know if I’m more surprised the nuggets have lead in them, or that the FDA realised it was a bad thing, and actually warned people about them!
Seriously. How, the fuck, does LEAD get ANYWHERE NEAR food nowadays?
from the pipes, and metal manufacturing equipment.
lunchables recently were exposed to high lead levels, and many spices may contain lead.
Lead can be used to cheaply increase the weight of.a product. It is also used for whitening surfaces that benefit from that. Chinese manufacturers have been caught doing both many times, I would start with tracing the origin of this chicken.
Lead is in the soil, along with other heavy metals, pfas, and all sorts of shit, thousands of things. Including huge amounts of whatchacall it, flouride. I know you guys all trust that one, but it’s an industrial byproduct of aluminum smelting and is in the soil in high levels in places like where california raisens are grown. Also it’s a different molecule of flouride that the naturally occurring one. Sweet dreams.