Researchers find lead in turmeric

[stepan13]

A new Stanford-led study reveals that turmeric—a commonly used spice throughout South Asia—is sometimes adulterated with a lead-laced chemical compound in Bangladesh, one of the world's predominant turmeric-growing regions.

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[park_bear]

Apparently this has happened in India as well and found its way to the US:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/ab...

"Product Recalls

In the past several years, 13 brands of lead-contaminated turmeric have been recalled, all voluntarily. In 2011, companies based in Missouri and California initiated recalls of Archer Farms and Spice Hunter ground turmeric sold at stores nationwide because of excessive lead levels. Later that year, an online distributor recalled a powder-based dietary turmeric supplement (Dr Clark brand), which had been sold throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, and the United Kingdom. These recalls were followed by the voluntary recall of Pran ground turmeric in 2013 by 4 companies based in New York,Texas,and Michigan. Samples collected from these states had lead concentrations of 28-42ppm, 53ppm, and 48ppm, respectively. Afterthese recalls, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an import alert, which allows ports to detain future shipments from specific importers, targeting turmeric from Pran (Bangladesh), Visakarega Trading (India), and IndoVedic Nutrients (India). In August 2016, seven brands of turmeric distributed by Gel Spice Inc were recalled because of elevated lead levels. The recalled turmeric had been distributed throughout the United States"

Consumer Labs tested a small number of different turmeric supplements and did not find any contamination in the supplements that they tested. Since the lead chromate contaminant is the same pigment that is used in paints, I believe lead paint test kits will also serve to detect lead chromate in turmeric. Such test kits are available inexpensively. I placed one on order.

[enjoysalud in reply to park_bear]

Thank you Park_bear.

[ParlePark in reply to park_bear]

Thanks for this info.

[Moorhen2002 in reply to park_bear]

Thank you park_bear interesting reading , I have been taking organic Turmeric curcumin bought from "Pure Nature" I just hope it does not contain lead.

Kind regards

Moorhen2002

[healthabc]

anyone know about lead problems in Integrative Therapeutics "Theracurmin"?