FDA Sends Warning Letter to Dollar Tree for Selling Lead-Tainted Product After Recall

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter to Dollar Tree saying it failed to remove a recalled apple sauce product sold to children that was found to be contaminated with lead. In the letter, the FDA said that Dollar Tree, which also operates Family Dollar, sold WanaBana Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree pouches weeks after Wanabana USA initiated a voluntary recall of all the products. “Subsequent recall audit checks of your Dollar Tree and Family Dollar-Dollar Tree combination stores revealed that you continued to offer the recalled WanaBana Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree pouches on store shelves well after the recall was initiated, despite FDA’s numerous attempts to bring this serious issue to your attention,” the agency said in the letter, which was dated on June 11 but released on the FDA website on Tuesday....