Originally published January 15 2006
Baltimore authorities want to impose ban on unsafe candy from Mexico
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The Baltimore City Health Department is working to ban candy manufactured in Mexico that has tested high for lead content, which poses a grave threat to the health of children.
Baltimore, MD The Baltimore City Health Department is working to crack down on Mexican-made candy that contains unsafe levels of lead.
Health officials are prompting the state to introduce legislation that will require some imported candy to be tested and issue advisories whenever harmful candy is discovered.
WJZ's Mary Bubala reports that the lead gets into the candy either from ceramic machinery at the Mexican plant or from the tainted soil used to grow the ingredients.
Children living near these candy factories tested positive for severe lead poisoning.
Earlier this year, officials pulled hundreds of pieces of Mexican-imported toxic candy from store shelves.
But because the U.S. has not banned the candy, city health officials say it's only a matter of time before the lead problem resurfaces in Baltimore.
City Health Commissioner Dr. Josh Sharfstein tells WJZ's Bubala, "Ideally the federal government should be doing their job, but it's been clear they've been able to do it and the kids have to be protected.
So if legislation is necessary at the state level than that's what we should do."
The legislation will be introduced in the 2006 General Assembly and would be modeled after a measure passed in California.
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