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.”

  • @chitak166
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    Sounds like they don’t want to pay taxes to support workers that made them rich.

    If I had to guess, Catalonia is where the white collar jobs are and they want to distance themselves from where blue collar jobs are.

    • ProdigalFrog
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      7 months ago

      Ironic considering Catalonia was the hub of an Anarchist Worker-coop revolution during the Spanish civil war.

      • @[email protected]
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        One could note a direct link between Franco driving the boot into their neck for fifty years while the rest of the country clapped and modern Spanish fascists starting to win elections with their current desire to leave.

      • @chitak166
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        -107 months ago

        Yeah. Each generation wants to be on top while everyone else is subjugated.