Walmart has had to recall another one of their popular item s due to levels of arsenic flagged by epidemiologists. The supermarket giant has had to pull nearly 10,000 cases of their Great Value apple juice after tests revealed the juice contained above-acceptable levels of inorganic arsenic levels. The FDA originally issued the recall on August 15, but increased the warning to a Class II category warning.
Class II Recalls are issued on products that have a lower chance of causing major injuries or death, but where there is still the possibility of serious enough adverse events to have irreversible consequence. This type of recall is related to substances that can cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences. The recalled juices were sold in 8oz bottles in packs of six at Walmart stores across 25 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia.
This isn’t the first time apple juice has been recalled due to arsenic levels, in fact, in May, 25,000 bottles were recalled for the very same issue, remember the bottles that everyone was biting into on TikTok ? Yeah, those. So, why is arsenic finding its way into our apple juice? And is it still safe to drink? Arsenic is released into the environment through industrial and agricultural processes and comes in two forms: organic and inorganic. Inorganic arsenic, which is the type that has shown up in the apple juice recalls, is considered the more toxic form, according to the World Health Organization .
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