3 Kids’ Applesauce Brands Recalled for Lead Contamination

re: 3 Kids’ Applesauce Brands Recalled for Lead Contamination

skipley — 11/9/2023 9:57:28 PM

As an organic apple farmer my colored past (40 years prior) I was a 'fieldman' overseeing 2000 acres of fruit growing in Eastern Washington applying my conventional farming BS degree. I handled over 30 different chemicals on apples alone. I considered this crop to be second in pesticide use to cotton-and we don't eat cotton! And organic farmers in this area are commonly using Dow chemical Spinosad or 'Entrust' bacterium. It's a broad spectrum insecticide that's hard on bees and other beneficials and a bit of an allergen.

At the pick-your-own Skipley Farm in Snohomish I educate the public on apples with "blemifits" -the benefits of blemishes- which the most domestic fruit in the world ofcourse has the worlds bugs and blights- most can be tied to some benefit anticarcinogens Salvestrol and controversial Patulin. AM apple maggot and CM codling moth - caterpiller - can flavor the fruit but to our benefit for the bitters, vinegars and increased complexity. In fact many of the fruits I consume can be perfectly 'decayed' or bletted if not requiring that condition to consume satisfactorily.

Liquid apples or pears encapsulated in their skin are perfectly safe and basically raw pear or apple sauce and occasionally with natural vinegars and more rarely alcohol. I grow strictly organic fruit use Kaolin clay as a bug deterrent, lauding on the merits of apple scab, codling moth and apple maggot. My 520 varieties are grown for the joy of the science, flavors and storability.

On a mission to improve personal health through farming-incubating farmers through model. The apple has more phenolics www.intechopen.com/.../85557 and more than most berries including elder, blueberry, acai, goji etc. It is a superfood! and it has been adulterated and it requires education to recover. I sell trees (and fruit) to beginning farmers, scionwood and rootstock to grow your own. Consult local land Grant college and local farmer to discover how you can help your health.

re: 3 Kids’ Applesauce Brands Recalled for Lead Contamination

rinske — 11/7/2023 1:54:07 PM

www.ewg.org/.../dirty-dozen.php You are right about this list. Not served in my kitchen. I did not know about the Spinach, Kale, Collards and Mustard Greens. Thanks everyone.

re: 3 Kids’ Applesauce Brands Recalled for Lead Contamination

grulla — 11/7/2023 9:28:47 AM

Popular fruits such as apples, as well as strawberries, have always been high on the EWG's Dirty Dozen veggie list, sometimes changing position up or down from year to year. Currently this year 2023, apples are #7, with strawberries at #1, and pears are two points worse than apples at #5. www.ewg.org/.../dirty-dozen.php

re: 3 Kids’ Applesauce Brands Recalled for Lead Contamination

xra6610 — 11/6/2023 9:11:39 PM

This may be new for these apple product brands, but it is nothing new about finding toxic things in kids fruit drinks and other products. Cadmium, inorganic arsenic, lead, or mercury have been found in multiple products marketed to children. This is OKAY with the FDA as they set a limit on the amount that is ALLOWED in these products. These things are toxic and there are no safe levels for children. In 2013 the FDA promised to lower the ALLOWED levels by 2018. What has the FDA done...NOTHING! FDA is useless! It is run by the Corporations that it is meant to regulate.