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A series of Facebook posts claiming that jelly sandals (or jellies) sold at Walmart stores contain a dangerous amount of lead circulated in June 2017, such as the following post: Similar claims were made by other Facebook users. One, for instance, reported that her daughter, who basically only wears Jellies, also demonstrated elevated lead levels: None of the postings holding that Walmart's jellies contained lead came from or cited an official source, such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Consumer Protection Agency, or Walmart, nor did they rely upon confirmed laboratory testing. Rather, one posting was based on a home test kit and the other on speculation. While some social media users asserted that they tested jellies and found that they contained unsafe levels of lead, others performed the same testing and found that the products were apparently safe: Tamara Rubin, a lead-poisoning prevention advocate, also tested the jelly shoes and found that they were lead free. It should also be noted that this rumor is based on the testing of individual products, and not all jelly sandals. Walmart has not issued a recall on any of their jelly shoe products: On 24 July 2017, Megan Krigg, Walmart's Senior Director of Corporate Affairs, told us that the jelly shoes in question had undergone additional testing to confirm that these products did not contain unsafe amounts of lead:
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