STAT July 16, 2024
CHICAGO – The FDA’s top food regulator contended Tuesday that the agency could not have done much more to prevent the recent contamination of children’s applesauce with lead.
The official, Food and Drug Administration Deputy Commissioner Jim Jones, argued that if companies like the producer of the lead-laced cinnamon in the applesauce “are hell-bent about breaking the rules, they’re usually going to get away...