From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro.

This is the Daily.

Today, a Times investigation has revealed how apple sauce leased with high levels of lead

which poisoned hundreds of children across the US sailed through a food safety system meant to protect American consumers.

I spoke with my colleague Christina Jewett about what she found. you it's Thursday, February 29th.

It's Thursday, February 29th.

Christina, where does this story 29th.

Christina, where does this story start? So last summer, families all over America started to have sort of a mysterious problem.

Their kids had startlingly high blood lead levels.

And this is extremely alarming for all these families

because lead poisoning can lead to behavior problems, learning problems,

developmental problems as well. And basically no one knows where this is coming from.

Our daughter loves makeup and doing her nails.

Thresses.

Mm-hmm.

And our son loves cars and airplanes.

Loud exhaust. And one of the families in this situation is Nicole Peterson and Thomas Young.

They have two little kids, a little boy who's one and a daughter who's three.

And our son had gone to his first annual checkup and they did a fingerprint and his blood level is high.

And during their routine pediatric visits for the summer, they learn that the kids have high blood levels.

We're talking about triple to quadruple the CDC's level of concern basically.

Wow.

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