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The chief health worker’s workplace in Massachusetts has decided that an adolescent who ate a tortilla chip containing a excessive focus of a chemical compound present in chili peppers, died of a coronary heart assault final September.
Harris Wolobah, who had a congenital coronary heart defect, was trying Paqui’s ultra-spicy “One Chip Problem” when he ingested the tortilla chip seasoned with each the Carolina Reaper pepper and the Naga Viper pepper.
Paqui voluntarily pulled the product, which was packaged in a coffin-shaped field, off cabinets following Wolobah’s demise in September.
The chief health worker’s workplace on Thursday confirmed to CNN that Wolobah died of cardiopulmonary arrest after consuming a meals substance “with (a) excessive capsaicin focus.” Capsaicin is the spicy, naturally occurring chemical in chili peppers.
The Carolina Reaper Pepper ranks just under pepper spray on the Scoville scale, which measures the pungency of peppers and chilis.
The Naga Viper is a bit much less pungent, coming in at round 1.2 million warmth items on the size. That’s far spicier than a jalapeño pepper, which is available in at about 5,000 warmth items.
“Paqui’s One Chip Problem was meant for adults solely, with clear and distinguished labeling highlighting that the product was not for kids or anybody delicate to spicy meals or with underlying well being situations,” a Paqui spokesperson informed CNN Thursday.
“We noticed elevated reviews of teenagers and different people not heeding these warnings. In consequence, whereas the product adhered to meals security requirements, out of an abundance of warning, we labored with retailers to voluntarily take away the product from cabinets in September 2023.” The spokesperson added that the “One Chip Problem has been discontinued.”
The corporate’s website says it would reimburse shoppers for 2023 Paqui Carolina Reaper + Naga Viper Pepper One Chip Problem luggage which haven’t been eaten.
— CNN’s Sara Sensible and Richard Davis contributed to this report.