The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert for frozen, dinosaur-shaped, ready-to-eat chicken nuggets sold at Walmart stores because they may be contaminated with unsafe levels of lead.  Guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration provide an interim reference level (IRL) for lead

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

    • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      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.

    • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      9 days ago

      from the pipes, and metal manufacturing equipment.

      lunchables recently were exposed to high lead levels, and many spices may contain lead.