"Happy Easy-Going" or QI CAI BANG Chinese candies should come off store shelves today after the California Department of Public Health found high levels of lead in the sugary treats.
Lead levels of .61 parts per-million, well above the recommended .1 parts per-million, were discovered in the candy when state officials did a random check on it, spokeswoman Lea Brooks said.
Officials are sending out letters to the places where the candy is distributed, she said.
The candy comes in a long, skinny shape. It is about 3.5 inches long and is wrapped in colorful, often striped, foil. Inside the packaging, the candy is brown.
QI CAI BANG is sold in a round, clear, plastic container with a red lid, not unlike the tubs that Red Vines are sometimes packaged in. The front of the container has a white and green label with "Fengxi" in red and "QI CAI BANG" in white. "Happy Easy-Going" is printed on a paper label on the lid of the container.
Each plastic container holds about 100 pieces of the candies.
Lead-contaminated candy is particularly harmful to infants, young children and pregnant women, according to the department of public health.
Consumers who find QI CAI BANG candy for sale are encouraged to call the public health department's complaint hotline at (800) 495-3232, Environmental Health at (831) 454-2022 or Lead Poisoning Prevention Program at (831) 763-8200.
Lead levels of .61 parts per-million, well above the recommended .1 parts per-million, were discovered in the candy when state officials did a random check on it, spokeswoman Lea Brooks said.
Officials are sending out letters to the places where the candy is distributed, she said.
The candy comes in a long, skinny shape. It is about 3.5 inches long and is wrapped in colorful, often striped, foil. Inside the packaging, the candy is brown.
QI CAI BANG is sold in a round, clear, plastic container with a red lid, not unlike the tubs that Red Vines are sometimes packaged in. The front of the container has a white and green label with "Fengxi" in red and "QI CAI BANG" in white. "Happy Easy-Going" is printed on a paper label on the lid of the container.
Each plastic container holds about 100 pieces of the candies.
Lead-contaminated candy is particularly harmful to infants, young children and pregnant women, according to the department of public health.
Consumers who find QI CAI BANG candy for sale are encouraged to call the public health department's complaint hotline at (800) 495-3232, Environmental Health at (831) 454-2022 or Lead Poisoning Prevention Program at (831) 763-8200.
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