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“Pacific Health Sciences issued a recall for its Babies' Magic Tea brand Baby Sleep Gripe Water after FDA testing found it contained three undisclosed alcohols (ethanol, methanol, and isopropanol) not listed on the label”
Plain restatementPacific Health Sciences announced a voluntary recall of its Babies' Magic Tea brand Baby Sleep Gripe Water dietary supplement because FDA testing identified ethanol, methanol and isopropanol in the product that were not declared on the label.
This one checks out. The FDA's own recall page carries a Pacific Health Sciences announcement, dated 6 October 2026 and published by the FDA on 7 October 2026, recalling Babies' Magic Tea brand Baby Sleep Gripe Water after FDA testing found ethanol, methanol and isopropanol that were not declared on the label, at roughly 8.3%, 0.35% and 0.48%. The product details in the post match the official record: 4 fl oz bottles, lot 25122bw, best before 12/2028, sold through Amazon and the Secrets of Tea website. Two small gaps are worth knowing. The recall covers one lot, not the entire product line, and the post's caption calls the three alcohols "naturally occurring," a description that does not appear in the official announcement, which simply calls them organic alcohols and says nothing about how they got there. The company says it has received no reports of adverse events tied to the recalled lot. The FDA's severity classification for this recall was not published at the time of checking, and the cause of the contamination is not explained in the record. All figures above are as of 11 October 2026.
Pacific Health Sciences [drifted from the evidence:] issued a recall [drifted from the evidence:] for its Babies' Magic Tea brand Baby Sleep Gripe Water [drifted from the evidence:] after FDA testing [drifted from the evidence:] found it contained three undisclosed alcohols (ethanol, methanol, and isopropanol) not [drifted from the evidence:] listed on the label
Pacific Health Sciences [added by the neutral restatement:] announced a [added by the neutral restatement:] voluntary recall [added by the neutral restatement:] of its Babies' Magic Tea brand Baby Sleep Gripe Water [added by the neutral restatement:] dietary supplement because FDA testing [added by the neutral restatement:] identified ethanol, methanol and isopropanol [added by the neutral restatement:] in the product that were not [added by the neutral restatement:] declared on the label.
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- Pacific Health Sciences did announce a recall of Babies' Magic Tea brand Baby Sleep Gripe Water, and the announcement appears on the FDA's own recall channel with a company announcement date of 2026-10-06 and an FDA publish date of 2026-10-07.
- FDA testing is named in the announcement as the source of the finding, matching the claim's wording.
- All three named substances are correct: ethanol, methanol and isopropanol, measured at approximately 8.3%, 0.35% and 0.48% respectively in the tested lot.
- The announcement states these substances were not declared on the product label, matching "undisclosed" and "not listed on the label."
- The caption's product details check out against the announcement: 4 fl oz bottles, best before date of 12/2028, lot number 25122bw.
- The caption's statement that the company has not received reports of adverse events matches the announcement.
- The caption's quoted list of effects, "drowsiness, incoordination, behavioral changes, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain," appears verbatim in the announcement's hazard statement.
- The headline claim says a recall was issued for the product without noting that the action covers one lot only, lot 25122bw with a best before date of 12/2028, rather than the whole product line. The caption does supply the lot number and date, so a reader of the full post gets the scope, but a reader of the headline sentence alone does not.
- The caption says exposure "could also cause babies to have developmental problems, respiratory depression, and other serious consequences." The announcement says infant ethanol exposure "has been linked to" long-term developmental consequences, and that exposure to higher amounts "can increase risk of" respiratory depression. A documented link and an increase in risk are weaker statements than causation, and the caption's phrasing is firmer than the source.
- The caption describes the three substances as "naturally occurring." That characterization does not appear in the company announcement, which calls them "organic alcohols," a chemistry term meaning carbon-based rather than natural in origin. The announcement gives no account of how the alcohols got into the product. Describing them as naturally occurring implies a benign origin the record does not establish and is not a claim the regulator's record supports.
- How the three alcohols came to be in the tested lot is not stated anywhere in the record retrieved. The announcement reports the test results and the hazard, not the cause.
- Whether other lots of the same product are affected is not addressed. The announcement covers lot 25122bw only, and absence of a finding about other lots is not a finding that other lots are clean.
- The recall's hazard classification by the FDA was not found at the time of checking, so the severity tier the agency will assign is not yet established.
- Whether any adverse events will later be reported is open. The announcement records none as of its date, which is a statement about reports received, not about whether harm occurred.
The FDA's recall channel carries a company announcement from Pacific Health Sciences dated 2026-10-06, published by FDA on 2026-10-07, headed "Pacific Health Sciences Voluntarily Recalls One Lot of Babies' Magic Tea Brand Baby Sleep Gripe Water Dietary Supplement." The announcement states: "FDA testing of this lot identified ethanol, methanol, and isopropanol that were not declared on the product label. Measured levels were approximately 8.3% ethanol, 0.35% methanol, and 0.48% isopropanol." It identifies the product as Babies' Magic Tea brand Baby Sleep Gripe Water, lot number 25122bw, best before 12/2028, packaged as a 4 fl oz (about 118 mL) amber bottle inside a blue cardboard box with an oral syringe included. The hazard statement says organic alcohols of this kind are known to impair normal functioning of the central nervous system, that infant ethanol exposure has been linked to long-term developmental consequences, that exposure at the amounts recommended on the packaging can induce drowsiness, incoordination, behavioral changes, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain, and that higher exposure can increase the risk of respiratory depression and other serious adverse health consequences. The announcement records that the company has not received reports of adverse events associated with the recalled lot, and that the lot was distributed to Secrets of Tea for sale through online retailers including Amazon and secretsoftea.com. The posted text also notes it is an update to a press release previously issued on 2026-10-06 to explain the hazard more clearly.
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Is it true that Pacific Health Sciences recalled Babies' Magic Tea Baby Sleep Gripe Water over undisclosed alcohols?
Yes. The FDA's recall channel carries a company announcement from Pacific Health Sciences dated October 6, 2026, saying FDA testing found ethanol, methanol and isopropanol that were not declared on the label.
Does the recall cover the entire product line or just some of it?
It covers one lot only, lot number 25122bw, with a best before date of 12/2028. The claim as stated does not make this scope clear on its own, though the fuller caption does include the lot details.
How much of each alcohol was found, and is that confirmed?
Yes, the announcement states approximately 8.3% ethanol, 0.35% methanol and 0.48% isopropanol were measured in the tested lot, matching the claim.
Were the alcohols naturally occurring, as some reports described them?
That is not established. The official announcement calls them 'organic alcohols,' a chemistry term for carbon-based compounds, and does not say how they got into the product or describe them as naturally occurring.
Have any babies been harmed by this product?
The company says it has not received reports of adverse events tied to the recalled lot. This reflects reports received as of the announcement date, not a finding about whether harm did or did not occur.