The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its list of ground cinnamon products that were found to contain elevated levels of lead.

There are now 16 brands mentioned with the recent additions of HAETAE and Roshni ground cinnamon, the administration reports.

The FDA has deemed these spices unsafe for eating after collecting and testing samples at a retail establishment.

Both the Roshni and HAETAE cinnamon can be identified with the UPC code 6251136034139 and the best by date Feb. 9 of this year.

Testing found the Roshni cinnamon had a lead concentration of 2.268 parts per million (ppm) while the HAETAE cinnamon product had 4.6 ppm.

Full list of affected cinnamon products

The administration is urging customers to check their pantries and immediately toss out all products on the

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