U.S. health officials are reporting more cases of children sickened by fruit puree pouches that were recalled due to lead contamination.

More children were apparently sickened by apple puree pouches recently recalled due to dangerous lead contamination, the Food and Drug Administration said.

The agency has received 52 reports of elevated lead levels among children who reportedly consumed the products, which is up from 34 cases reported last week. The reports span 22 states and involve children between the ages of 1 to 4, according to the FDA’s online update on the investigation.

The pouches were marketed to parents and children under three brands: WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree and Schnucks and Weis cinnamon applesauce pouches. They were sold by national grocery chains, including Dollar Tree, and online retailers such as Amazon.

The FDA said it is still working with Dollar Tree to get the recalled products off of shelves in several states.

  • ares35@kbin.social
    124·
    8 months ago

    my kids ate apples, oranges, bananas, grapes, carrots and celery, and other fresh fruits and veggies. just like i did when i was a kid–and still do.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      84·
      8 months ago

      As you know then, kids are all about texture. And kids also go through picky phases. I give my kid fruit and he hates it, I give him this stuff and he loves it. If that’s the only way to get fruits and veggies at the moment so be it.

      • Vqhm@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 months ago

        There is a point where some fruits are more dangerous than others to give a toddler, such as grapes.

        I made a lot of purees with a hand mixer. On the weekend I would batch cook and bulk freeze a lot of different purees before they could have solid food.

        You don’t have to use everything fresh, you can use frozen fruits/veggies and even do Passata - Strained Tomatoes no salt added. We had concerns about the level of salt in premade foods so we made our own on the weekend and froze it all in ice trays then put it in zip locks. Low sodium lentil soups are ok too.

        It ended up being a lot cheaper just to spend an hour on the weekend batch cooking for the kid and batch cooking for lunches to take to work.

        Finally I got a little plastic masher and used that, as soon as they were old enough do it themselves. They wouldn’t eat anything they mashed at first but they loved playing with it.

        Now they just grab apples and other fruit straight from the fridge.

        Our doctor said not to give them juice or fruit packs at all. The doctor did say chocolate milk mixed with regular milk is a good treat that’s safe and hydrating tho.

    • Norgur@kbin.social
      118·
      8 months ago

      The difference between your reply and the one I reacted to is that you didn’t lecture anyone on how to do a job they did never do themselves. You told us how you raised your kids in a strictly anecdotal manner.

      I don’t have an issue with not using those fruit packets or something. I have an issue with random people lecturing parents about how they should just parent more because it’s so easy…