Listen up, Massachusetts residents. You may be using some or many products from a New England-based company that has recently found itself in hot water based on findings from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

Tom's of Maine, Inc., a major brand of hygiene products and cosmetics, recently received a warning letter from the FDA concerning some troubling findings after an inspection at the company's Maine facility.

MassLive.com reports that, according to the warning letter, the FDA found water not only used to make a brand of Tom's toothpaste but also used to clean equipment,  contaminated with multiple types of bacteria.

Also, a particular strain of bacteria that can cause blood and eye infections was detected in Tom's Wicked Cool! Anticavity Toothpaste. And in a part of the facility where products are prepared, a black mold-like substance was found.

By the way, MassLive.com reports that two of the types of bacteria found in the water have very unpleasant potential side effects including infections of the blood, lungs, urinary tract and more, plus sepsis, which can be life-threatening.

The FDA stated in the warning letter that Tom's of Maine, Inc. (which, by the way, is owned by Colgate-Palmolive) basically has 15 working days to address the situation and provide the FDA with documents showing that appropriate steps are being taken and a clean-up is underway.

For a closer look at the actual warning letter, visit the FDA's website here and for more on the actual story, check it out by visiting MassLive.com. Needless to say, check your medicine cabinet. You've been warned.

LOOK: Things from the year you were born that don't exist anymore

The iconic (and at times silly) toys, technologies, and electronics have been usurped since their grand entrance, either by advances in technology or breakthroughs in common sense. See how many things on this list trigger childhood memories—and which ones were here and gone so fast you missed them entirely.

Gallery Credit: Stacey Marcus

States with the most registered hunters

Stacker analyzed data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine which states have the most registered hunters. Read on to see how your state ranks on Stacker’s list.

Gallery Credit: Meagan Drillinger

READ ON: See the States Where People Live the Longest

Stacker used data from the 2020 County Health Rankings to rank every state's average life expectancy from lowest to highest. The 2020 County Health Rankings values were calculated using mortality counts from the 2016-2018 National Center for Health Statistics. The U.S. Census 2019 American Community Survey and America's Health Rankings Senior Report 2019 data were also used to provide demographics on the senior population of each state and the state's rank on senior health care, respectively.

Read on to learn the average life expectancy in each state.

Gallery Credit: Hannah Lang

LOOK: See how much gasoline cost the year you started driving

To find out more about how has the price of gas changed throughout the years, Stacker ran the numbers on the cost of a gallon of gasoline for each of the last 84 years. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (released in April 2020), we analyzed the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline from 1976 to 2020 along with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for unleaded regular gasoline from 1937 to 1976, including the absolute and inflation-adjusted prices for each year.

Read on to explore the cost of gas over time and rediscover just how much a gallon was when you first started driving.

Gallery Credit: Sophia Crisafulli

More From WUPE