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  • 2017-02-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Parent Find Codeine in Her Child's Gerber Puffs? (de)
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  • On 15 February 2017, Facebook user Meghan Holt Davis published a Facebook post (subsequently edited in a timeline fashion), claiming that she found a foreign object in her child's Gerber Puffs canister: Holt Davis wrote that she located the object while pouring Gerber Puffs onto her child's high chair tray, and that she traveled to two cities where three separate pharmacists concluded the item was a tablet of Tylenol containing codeine, a Schedule III controlled medication. Holt Davis said that a different family also found an unidentified tablet in their child's Gerber oatmeal, and that still more families had contacted her to share their own experiences. On 23 February 2017, we asked Gerber about the claim; a representative told us that a family in Texas reported finding a tablet in a can of Gerber Puffs, but it was not known whether anything had been sent to the company for testing. Gerber, contracting the Facebook post, told us that no additional reports of tablets in their products had been filed. A June 2016 complaint about a pill purportedly found in a Gerber oatmeal product was initially reported in the news, but information about the outcome of an ensuing investigation was not available: On 24 February 2017, we received a response from Gerber about the complaint: We also received a detailed and forthcoming response from Holt Davis, who stated she originally intended for her post to be viewable only to friends and family and was surprised by the groundswell of interest: Holt Davis said that while she waited for a Gerber representative to retrieve the object, her family had it independently examined: She added that in the interim she was contacted by families reporting similar contaminants (including a penny), and maintained others shared documented complaints of a similar nature with her: Holt Davis subsequently stated that a representative for Gerber retracted the comment about pallets made to the family complaining of wood shards in a product, asserting that the wooden crates could not be a factor in that purported instance of contamination. Stating that she did not wish to be compensated and solely wanted to make others aware of her experience, she concluded: Holt Davis further asserted that the object was retrieved by a representative for Gerber on 22 February 2017; Gerber did not mention their retrieval of the object in either exchange. Neither Holt Davis nor Gerber had further information on the results of the company's testing, which was pending as of 24 February 2017. (en)
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