SmartyPants
Facts-only compliance record. Every entry is source-backed and dated.
Event Timeline
Lead Safe Mama: Organic Prenatal Multi & Omegas at 7.77 ppb lead (SimpleLab R7T1R7)
Lead Safe Mama, LLC published a September 8, 2024 report on SmartyPants Organic Prenatal Multi & Omegas gummy vitamins. The article body does not state a lead concentration. The SimpleLab report image on the page (Testing / Report ID R7T1R7; Heavy Metals Food Test - 4A; collected August 4, 2024; reported August 15, 2024; sample description "Smarty Pants Orgnic Prenatal Multi & Omegas (Vitamins)") lists lead at 7.77 µg/kg by USP 232/233 (MDL 1.5) and lists arsenic, cadmium, and mercury as NOT DETECTED (MDLs 6, 3, and 1.5 µg/kg). The chart on the same page shows lead at 7.77 ppb against a 5 ppb action level the chart attributes to levels proposed with the Baby Food Safety Act of 2021, and shows cadmium, mercury, and arsenic as non-detect (below 3, 1.5, and 6 ppb). Screenshots on the page show the bottle and an Amazon listing carrying Clean Label Project Certified and Purity Award marks.
Class II voluntary recall for foreign material (Kids Complete, lot KC90-MH8C09)
Smartypants Vitamins (Marina Del Rey, California) initiated a voluntary Class II recall (FDA event_id 81559; recall number F-0683-2019) on 2018-11-13. openFDA product description: Smartypants Kids Complete, Non GMO Multi and omega 3's (vitamin D3 for bones, vitamin B12 for Energy), 90 gummies, UPC 8 5136 00425 5, distributed by SmartyPants Inc., Marina del Rey, CA 90292. Code info: KC90-MH8C09, expiration 08SEP2019. Product quantity: 60,726 bottles. FDA reason text: "Consumer complaints of finding foreign objects in bottles of gummy vitamins." Distribution pattern as recorded: "WA, IL, RI, MC, NJ, ID, IA, VA, NY, OH, CA, NC." Status Terminated; center classification date 2018-12-03; termination date 2019-06-27. No company announcement for this event was on the FDA recalls index at access. A Seward Community Co-op notice dated November 13, 2018 describes a voluntary recall of SmartyPants Kids Complete Multivitamin 90 Count after a limited report of a small number of foreign objects sitting on top of the product, not inside the gummies (lot MH8C09; UPC 85135600425-5; expiration 08SEP2019), and states there had been no reports of injuries or health issues.