Absolutely it’s fear mongering.
Assuming the very worst brand of cinnamon, and doing A little math…
If you ate an entire pound of cinnamon in a year - which IMO would be an awful lot - 16 oz times 28 grams in an ounce times 3.5 micrograms of lead per gram…
….Equals 1.568 milligrams of lead. Over the course of an entire year. Wonder how much you ingest just by living??
Now, if I took large amounts of cinnamon medicinally? Maybe I might pay attention. But otherwise? Much ado about nothing.
Not for Consumer Reports. This is their lifeblood.