Kids’ seaweed products recalledHEAVY METALS ISSUE: Six seaweed products had lead levels up to 4 times the maximum allowable and cadmium levels up to 50 times the limit, the FDA saidBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporterTests of six seaweed products marketed toward young children and infants showed that they contained lead and cadmium in excess of legal limits, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday, advising parents to not give them to their children. Photo courtesy of the Food and Drug AdministrationThe products had lead levels 1.4 to 4.4 times the limit and cadmium levels 22 to 53 times the limit, the magazine reported. The companies supplying the six products — BEBE Kids’ Crispy Seaweed (BEBE 貝兒純淨海苔), LUSOL Unsalted and Unflavored Baked Seaweed (LUSOL 無鹽無調味烘烤海苔), YummyBaby 100% Pure Olive Oil Seaweed (芽米寶貝100%純橄欖油海苔), MB BABY Seaweed (MB BABY 萌寶寶海苔), HanAbbaDiary Kids’ Seaweed (韓爸田園日記嚴選初收孩苔) and Ibobomi Unflavored Kids’ Crispy Seaweed (Ibobomi 無調味海苔片) — have been ordered to recall them and remove them from the shelves, with 25,047 items removed as of Monday, the FDA said. Testing showed that the six products had lead levels ranging from 0.14mg/kg to 0.206mg/kg and cadmium levels from 0.912mg/kg to 2.013mg/kg, said Liu Fang-ming (劉芳銘), director of the FDA’s Northern Taiwan Management Center. MB BABY Seaweed had lead levels of 0.206mg/kg, about four times the allowable limit, while HanAbbaDiary Kids’ Seaweed had chromium levels of 2.013mg/kg, or about 50 times the allowable limit, Liu said.

Source: Taipei Times January 13, 2026 17:13 UTC