This was by far my favorite hot sauce until the University of Nevada at Las Vegas released a study identifying this brand as having 0.21 PPM of lead in it along with others - FDA limit for lead in food is 0.1 PPM. It got some publicity so do a search for "hot sauce lead" to read up. Aside from the lead, the use of artificial colors also bugged me. The study concludes that simple adjustments to the manufacturing process, such as washing the peppers, or not using salt from the earth, but rather the sea could remedy the problem altogether. If they're not even washing the peppers before processing them, then they are probably covered in pesticides as well.