BehindTheMedspeak: Lucas Limon Candy Declared Toxic

Lucas Limon (above) is a sweet–and–sour powder made in Mexico.

It comes in thumb–size shakers that kids love to "waterfall," or knock back whole.

The 39–cent candy — meant to be a seasoning for fruit, ice cream or chips — turns out to have six to seven times the maximum amount of lead a person can safely consume in one day.

Health officials in cities across the U.S. are trying to find and remove it from markets.

The company voluntarily stopped making it last August once word got out about the elevated lead content.

Nevertheless, it remains on many store shelves nationwide.

Petula Dvorak wrote in yesterday's Washington Post about the sudden involvement of the District of Columbia's Department of Health in the issue, with officials now prowling the bodegas of Adams–Morgan on the lookout for the candy.