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BY Michael Grothaus

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a large-scale recall of a canned fruit product sold by Walmart. The product is being recalled due to fears it may be contaminated with elevated levels of lead. Here’s what you need to know.

What’s happened?

Last week, the FDA published an enforcement report detailing a recall that was initiated at the beginning of the month.

The recall was voluntarily initiated by Pacific Coast Producers of Lodi, California, a food manufacturer that provides canned fruit and tomatoes to retailers.

Though the FDA’s enforcement report says the voluntary recall was initiated on October 1, it does not appear that news of the recall was communicated to the public before the agency’s enforcement report was published nearly three weeks later.

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