{"id":601295,"date":"2023-12-16T06:34:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T03:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/applesauce-pouch-contamination-may-have-been-deliberate-fda-official\/"},"modified":"2023-12-16T06:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T03:34:04","slug":"applesauce-pouch-contamination-may-have-been-deliberate-fda-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/applesauce-pouch-contamination-may-have-been-deliberate-fda-official\/","title":{"rendered":"#Applesauce pouch contamination may have been deliberate: FDA official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/Apple-Sauce-pouches.png?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Recalled <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lesauce pouches that left many children sick with lead poisoning could have been tainted on purpose, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). <\/p>\n<p>FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim Jones said that while the investigation is still ongoing, signs point to an intentional act to poison the puree. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still in the midst of our investigation,\u201d Jones said in an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/12\/14\/applesauce-pouches-may-have-been-contaminated-on-purpose-fda-foods-chief-says-00131797\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/12\/14\/applesauce-pouches-may-have-been-contaminated-on-purpose-fda-foods-chief-says-00131797\">interview with Politico<\/a>. \u201cBut so far, all of the signals we\u2019re getting lead to an intentional act on the part of someone in the supply chain and we\u2019re trying to sort of figure that out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weis, WanaBana and Schnucks\u00a0are the three brands that sold the contaminated pouches and they all have ties to a manufacturing facility in Ecuador. The facility is under inspection by the FDA.<\/p>\n<p>Jones told Politico he thinks the facility didn\u2019t believe the contaminated applesauce would have ended up in countries with a robust regulatory process. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy instinct is they didn\u2019t think this product was going to end up in a country with a robust regulatory process,\u201d Jones said. \u201cThey thought it was going to end up in places that did not have the ability to detect something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FDA has continued to look into a number of theories as to why and by whom the applesauce was contaminated, but the agency currently believes it was economically motivated. Essentially, ingredients could have been altered to make products appear higher in value in order to sell them for a higher price. <\/p>\n<p>Jones told Politico that despite the United States\u2019 existing food safety laws, intentional contamination is always going to be hard to \u201cabsolutely stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>An FDA spokesman also said that the agency has \u201climited authority over foreign ingredient suppliers that do not directly ship product to the U.S. because their food undergoes further manufacturing\/processing prior to export.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elevated levels of lead in children was first noticed by state and local officials in standard blood screenings, which are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to help reduce lead exposure in children under the age of 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to chase that data and find whoever was responsible and hold them accountable,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim Jones said that while the investigation is still ongoing, signs point to an intentional act to poison the puree. \u201cWe\u2019re still in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/Apple-Sauce-pouches.png?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[147732,134353,134661,73014,90482,133498,147733,70361,73801,134345],"class_list":["post-601295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-applesauce","tag-court-battles","tag-energy-environment","tag-health-care","tag-house","tag-in-the-know","tag-jim-jones","tag-lead-poisoning","tag-recalls","tag-state-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}