date:Nov 06, 2017
newsroom for alerts that were issued between January 2001 and June 2007. They also obtained data on candies tested in 2o11 and 2012 from the CDPH FDB Food Safety Section.
A total of 164 health alerts were issued for food contamination in California between 2001 and 2014. Of those, 36.6% were issued for lead contamination in foods.
Of the 60 lead-related health alerts issued during this period, 55, or 91.6%, were for imported foods. Almost all of the health alerts for lead-contaminated importe