Food for babies... US fails....

[Karl12]

Where's the FDA in all this? Don't ask...

Good question - went down this rabbit hole a while back and apparently samples of baby food taken from Gerber, Beech-Nut, Earth's Best Organic and HappyBABY were all found to contain dangerously high levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium and Mercury.

Leading baby food manufacturers knowingly sold products with high levels of toxic metals, a congressional investigation found


Internal documents from major baby food manufacturers show they tested and used ingredients with high levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury in the baby food they sold to parents, according to a congressional investigation.

Leading baby food manufacturers knowingly sold products with high levels of toxic metals, a congressional investigation found

(CNN)Four leading baby food manufacturers knowingly sold baby food that contained high levels of toxic heavy metals, according to internal company documents included in a congressional investigation released Thursday.

"Dangerous levels of toxic metals like arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury exist in baby foods at levels that exceed what experts and governing bodies say are permissible," said Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, chair of the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, which conducted the investigation, signed by the Democratic members.

Krishnamoorthi said the spreadsheets provided by manufacturers are "shocking" because they show evidence that some baby foods contain hundreds of parts per billion of dangerous metals. "Yet we know that in a lot of cases, we should not have anything more than single digit parts per billion of any of these metals in any of our foods," he told CNN.

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Apparently Walmart, Campbells and Sprout Organic refused to cooperate with the government investigation.

Then there’s this: three other companies – Walmart, which sells baby food through its brand Parent’s Choice; Campbell, which owned Plum Organic at the time of the investigation; and Sprout Organic Food – “refused to cooperate” with the investigation. The House subcommittee on economic and consumer policy, which released its findings in February, said it was “greatly concerned” that those companies’ “lack of cooperation might be obscuring the presence of even higher levels of toxic heavy metals in their baby food products than their competitors’ products”.

Why are there dangerous levels of arsenic and lead in American baby food?

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Effects on children:

We know that arsenic is a carcinogen and that it can impair neurodevelopment in children even at low levels. Arsenic is also associated with lung disease, heart attacks and kidney failure. Similarly, lead is known to alter brain development in children, reducing attention span and intelligence and increasing the likelihood of antisocial behavior. Cadmium is linked to kidney and gastrointestinal diseases, DNA impairment, cancer, osteoporosis and immune system deficiencies.