The Food and Drug Administration has notified parents of an immediate recall of a nighttime remedy intended to calm cranky babies. The recall affects bottles of Pacific Health Sciences’ Babies’ Magic Tea brand Baby Sleep Gripe Water, as a batch has been discovered to contain dangerous levels of organic alcohols not declared on the label.
More specifically, the ‘Magic Tea’ contained (as per the FDA), 8.3% ethanol, 0.35% methanol, and 0.48% isopropanol. The FDA’s approved amount of ethanol in over-the-counter products for children under 6 is just 0.5% (via the National Library of Medicine).
