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An additional cinnamon product sold in the United States has been found to contain high levels of lead, health officials are warning. In a health alert issued Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the ground cinnamon product, sold as El Servidor, joins a growing list of cinnamon products that have contained high levels of lead. Through testing, the cinnamon was found to have elevated lead levels at 20 parts per million. Although the FDA doesn’t set limits for lead levels in spices, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization has a proposed international safety standard of 2.5 parts per million of lead for bark spices like cinnamon, NBC News reported. The FDA noted that it has asked the distributor to recall the product. Lead in cinnamon products has become a growing problem: In March, the FDA warned about lead in fruit puree products sold at Dollar Tree, Family Dollar and other stores. Those products had levels of lead ranging from 2.03 to 3.4 parts per million. The cinnamon identified in the new alert was sold at a supermarket in New York City, although it’s unclear whether it was distributed more widely. Leigh Frame, director of integrative medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, told NBC News that the new recall was “alarming.” “We sort of assume things are safe until proven otherwise,” Frame… read on > read on >