Tainted cinnamon applesauce pouches that have sickened scores of children in the U.S. may have been purposefully contaminated with lead, according to FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim Jones.

“We’re still in the midst of our investigation. But so far all of the signals we’re getting lead to an intentional act on the part of someone in the supply chain and we’re trying to sort of figure that out,” Jones said in an exclusive interview. The pouches found to be contaminated were sold under three brands — Weis, WanaBana and Schnucks — that are all linked to a manufacturing facility in Ecuador. The FDA says it’s conducting an inspection of that facility.

“My instinct is they didn’t think this product was going to end up in a country with a robust regulatory process,” Jones said. “They thought it was going to end up in places that did not have the ability to detect something like this.”

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    11 months ago

    China executed mfers when companies sold tainted baby milk powder.

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        11 months ago

        Lead is sweet. That’s why kids eat paint chips.

        Someone saved money on sugar and biocide.

        The reason why I tacked this on after your comment is that you are on to something.

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          Sugar is way too cheap to use lead these days. 100 years ago this would have been plausible to me, but not today.

          Lead is used as a plastic softener, and these packages were likely not rated for food usage and whoever bought them online hadn’t checked for FDA approval for food safety before purchasing. It could have been something as simple as someone accidentally using the wrong materials in the factory too.

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      Only because they got caught. Everyone in the chain knew. The govt knew. They just got caught.

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        11 months ago

        Ok Alex Jones sure, now tell us about the chinese lizard people…

        I’m guessing your source for this is ‘it feels like it must be true because they’re baddies’?

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          Go watch interviews of western expats that moved there and Chinese citizens that talk about their experience living there and growing up there. There’s also a few China News channels on YT and other places. The info is NOT hard to find if you try just a bit. The corruption in China is out of control. There are huge groups of younger people refusing to participate in the system. A China civil war is very much brewing as the system teeters on the edge of an economic cliff.

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            11 months ago

            Yes and a lot of Chinese people I’ve spoken to belive all the same stuff about America and the west lol, it’s a simple game really and exactly the one Alex Jones plays - point at a few exaggerated accounts of genuinely bad things and extrapolate into the stratosphere without ever once checking your work.

            Of course China has corruption and infighting because everywhere does, that doesn’t mean the whole system is a conspiracy.