Overview

• The FDA’s recent alert warns that tests of imported aluminum, brass and Hindalium/Indalium cookware at a Queens supermarket found unsafe lead leaching.
• The agency named the Tiger White Kadai/Karahi pot by Saraswati Strips, sold at Mannan Supermarket in Jamaica, Queens, as a tested example of unsafe cookware.
• Retailers are directed to stop selling the affected items and consumers are told to dispose of them; no formal recall has been issued because the responsible distributor remains unidentified.
• The FDA reminded that no level of lead exposure is safe and chronic ingestion can impair neurological development in children and harm pregnant and breastfeeding people.
• Investigations are ongoing, with the agency pledging to add more products to its public alert if further tests uncover additional lead-leaching cookware.