‘Metal fibres’ may be in these multivitamins, supplements: Health Canada - National | Globalnews.ca
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Health Canada is recalling multiple brands of multivitamins and supplements due to concerns the products may contain harmful metal fibres.

Canadians are being advised to stop using various multivitamins and supplements from several brands after Health Canada said the products may contain metal fibres that could injure people’s digestive system.

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    • Phoenixz
      4·
      3 months ago

      Well in all fairness…

      It may be a recall after they found the issue. It could be that simply a machine part broke down or had a quality issue that caused this, with no I’ll intent. Sometimes an accident is simply an accident.

      • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        If thats the case, will they review their maintaince scheduling to see if this could be prevented in the future, or will they just shrug it off and wait until the next little accident and pray it doesn’t cause anyone any harm?

        Even if it is 100% accidental the company should be responsible to investigate the exact cause and come up with a plan to prevent a similar situation in the future.

        • Nik282000
          2·
          3 months ago

          Even if it is 100% accidental the company should be responsible to investigate the exact cause and come up with a plan to prevent a similar situation in the future.

          Everything that goes into a human body needs to be checked for contaminants when it enters your facility and before it leaves. QC fucked up, likely because of bean counters upstairs.

        • Phoenixz
          1·
          3 months ago

          Oh absolutely, fully agree.

          I’m just saying that this does not necessarily means that the company was already negligent

    • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Could be copper. Or aluminum. Or titanium, for that matter. Lots of possibilities in “metal” that would allow the label to still be technically truthful.

      Let’s just hope it isn’t lead.

      • Droechai@lemm.ee
        4·
        3 months ago

        At least lead is better than mercury or americinium since both of those metals have no business in vitamins but might be used in vicinity in older fire alarms and thermometers.

        If we are going worst case and a box of old alarms or thermometers got stored improperly and got crushed into the mix

        • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Can’t be mercury, since it’s liquid at room temperature and so wouldn’t form “fibres”. Americum . . . wouldn’t be impossible (and it’s still used in smoke detectors to this day, I believe), but the amount in a stack of smoke detectors isn’t quite the worst case—there would be more radioactive material in an orphaned radiotherapy or radiography source, which is also wildly improbable but not quite impossible as a multivitamin additive. At least it isn’t likely to be an abandoned Soviet radioisotope generator this time.

          • Droechai@lemm.ee
            1·
            3 months ago

            Enhanced Multi-Vitamins! Now giving the you the energy of a microfission plant!

    • doxxx
      1·
      3 months ago

      I think that site is being slashdotted.

  • shinratdr
    8·
    3 months ago

    I love product recalls because it’s a great way to find out which store brand products are literally the same thing with a different label.

    Great Value Soy Milk is Silk, found that out from the last one.