All juice drinkers, please take note.
Loblaw’s supermarkets in Canada issued an official recall yesterday (3/13) of two brands of pear juice because of their unusually high concentrations of….get this….arsenic! Beechnut Pear and President’s Choice Organics(!) pear juice were found by Health Canada to have arsenic levels from 58 to 107 ppb, slightly above what is considered “safe” for adults.
Both juices were produced in the United States, but the concentrates used to make the juice–a concentrate that they likely shared–probably came from three different places–Turkey, South American and the U.S, sources say.
How the arsenic got there, especially in the organic juice, which is supposed to be manufactured with fruit untainted by chemical insecticides, is still unknown.
Yet another reason to buy locally grown goods, folks….
Juices Recalled
Name: President’s Choice
Organics Pear Juice from
Concentrate for Toddlers
Size: 1 litre
UPC code: 0 60383 70935 8
Lot codes: All
Name: Beech Nut Pear Juice from concentrate with Vitamin C added
Size: 128 mL
UPC code: 0 523842 8
Lot code: 2009 FE02, A0384B0935
Meg
