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
This is deregulation. We inspect our own facilities and of something is found, we optimize for the stockholders.
Lots of kids died eating penny candy and adulterated milk, maybe occasionally adding a hand or arm to the sausage.
This time there’s lots of ag gag laws in place so we may not even get another Upton Sinclair.
Hell all the deregulation is probably why Gen x has butts filled with cancer.