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Complaint Investigation Summary Report #. 5105 <br />COMPLAINT ID: C00055108 Site Location: 12617 N MUNDY LN <br />Activity Summary <br />Activity Date Recorded by <br />10/12/2022 RECEIVED AND REVIEWED EMAILS FROM JEFF FOWLES (CDPH) SOOD <br />REGARDING THALLIUM LEVELS IN KALE CHIPS EXPLAINING THE FAMILY'S <br />URINARY THALLIUM PATTERN. BELOW IS A COPY OF THE EMAILS <br />RECEIVED. <br />The slight elevation in urine thallium in the family's dog, Barley, coincided with <br />elevations in barium and uranium. These elevations remained consistent across <br />two sampling timepoints even though Barley was barred from the backyard for the <br />second sampling. Our review of online data on dog food metal contaminants <br />found that metals can be generally higher than would be expected or even allowed <br />in human foodstuffs.. So the higher thallium in Barley the dog is unrelated to the <br />kale chips. <br />Get Outlook for iOS <br />From: Mark Miller <ucsfpehsumiller@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 7:58:04 AM <br />To: Harrison, Robert <Robert.Harrison@ucsf.edu> <br />Cc: Fowles, Jeff@CDPH <Jeff.Fowles@cdph.ca.gov>; Barreau, Tracy@CDPH <br /><Tracy.Barreau@cdph.ca.gov >; Bartlett, Russell@CDPH <br /><Russell.Bartlett@cdph.ca.gov>: Choudhury, Asha@CDPH <br /><Asha.Choudhury@cdph.ca.gov >; Johnstone, Jeremy <br /><Johnstone.Jeremy@epa.gov>: Nicholas Callahan <nlcallahan@fbi.gov>; Sutter, <br />Mark <mark.sutter@hq.dhs.gov >; Erica <erica.waters@comcast.net>: Sood, <br />Omran [EHD] <osood@sjgov.org>; Muni Naidu <mnaidu@sjgov.org>; Angela <br />Manassero <manaan2@hotmail.com>; Vidrio, Edgar@CDPH <br /><Edgar.Vidrio@cdph.ca.gov >; Javed, Amir@CDPH <Amir.Javed@cdph.ca.gov > <br />Subject: Re: Thallium investigation - kale chips results <br />This Message Is From an External Sender <br />This message came from outside your organization. <br />Report Suspicious <br />The kids had kale chips as their regular snack, so very frequently. Also broccoli, a <br />brassica as well. The father was the only one in the family that didn't eat them, he <br />liked junk food so he has his snacks separately. He was also the one that never <br />tested positive. <br />On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 10:36 AM Harrison, Robert <br /><Robert.Harrison@ucsf.edu> wrote: <br />Thanks Jeff, super interesting - did the kids also eat the kale chips? <br />Have you given this info to the family? <br />Sent from my iPhone <br />On Oct 11, 2022, at 5:32 PM, Fowles, Jeff@CDPH <Jeff.Fowles@cdph.ca.gov> <br />wrote: <br />This Message Is From an External Sender <br />This message came from outside your organization. <br />Dear all, <br />Our Food and Drug Laboratory Branch colleagues have come back with results <br />from the kale chip analysis for the thallium exposure investigation. Results of two <br />5105.rpt <br />Page 3 of 5