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The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it has confirmed that lead and chromium in applesauce from Ecuador manufacturer Austrofoods are from lead chromate.

A discussion will be held tonight on the status of lead in Delaware's water supply.

Changes to clean water laws may means hundreds of Great Falls homeowners will have to replace their water lines

The FDA said unprocessed cinnamon sticks used in the recalled products "were sourced from Sri Lanka" and were found to have no lead contamination.

The engineering firm said officials largely ignored its recommendations while working for the city after the lead-in-water crisis had already begun.

More than a dozen cases of higher blood-lead levels have been reported in Georgia related to recalled applesauce products.

The popular tumbler is still safe to drink water from, but there's more to the story.

Attention toward lead contamination and exposure - which is one of the most “common and preventable environmental health problems” in the United States today – is gaining support across the KC region.

Lead-contaminated cinnamon applesauce pouches that may have sickened hundreds of children in the U.S. were not tested for heavy metals during their manufacture at a facility in Ecuador, according to an inspection report from the FDA.

"It's a lifetime of lead remediation for a person's backyard."