Parents Should Set Realistic Expectations For Baby Food Heavy Metal Consumption

Parents have zero tolerance for baby food heavy metal contamination which is unrealistic in today's world

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - Parents are urged to become educated on the extent to which the baby food that they are feeding their children is contaminated with toxic heavy metals that could inhibit normal brain development. Parents.com reported on the alarming findings of an investigation that was concluded back in 2017 by Healthy Babies Bright Futures (HB), that tested 168 baby food brands on the market in America for heavy metals and found that "95 percent of containers contained toxic heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury)." The study also concluded that baby food made from rice, juice, and sweet potatoes had the highest levels of arsenic. Parents are encouraged to take the safety of the food they feed to their children into their own hands as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has failed to ban baby food brands that are producing toxic baby food, and will not even make a ruling on the allowable amounts of heavy metals that will be tolerated until some time in 2024, even though experts agree that there is no safe level of heavy metal contamination. Baby food heavy metal lawyers are speaking with parents whose children have been injured by eating toxic baby food.

I reported the other day on the Congressional investigation into best-selling baby food brands that are accused of failing to adequately test their products for toxic heavy metals. According to Parents.com, "Arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury were found in rice cereals, sweet potato puree, juices, and sweet snack puffs, according to a previous report from the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Committee on Oversight." Committee members told reporters, "The FDA must set standards and regulate this industry much more closely, starting now. Shockingly, parents are being completely left in the lurch by their government." Personal injury and wrongful death attorneys are accepting baby food heavy metal lawsuits filed and conducting free interviews of parents whose children have autism, attention deficit disorder (ADHD), below-average IQs, behavioral problems, or another form of abnormal brain development and can prove they have fed their child one of the following brands of baby food: Gerber, Beech-Nut, Sprout Foods Inc., Walmart's Parent's Choice, and Plum Organics. The FDA has already proposed a limit of 100 parts per billion (ppb) of arsenic that is allowable for infant rice cereal, the most heavily-consumed type of baby food in the infant's first few months. Pregnant women with children that tested positive for arsenic at birth demonstrate poorer cognitive performance according to Parents.com. Parents should be aware that heavy metals are present everywhere in the environment and it is unrealistic to expect their baby's food to be void of the contaminants. Even making homemade, organic baby food using locally grown ingredients will expose children to a certain amount of heavy metals. Parents.com warns parents to feed their children a diversified diet that included rice cereal containing iron but not to rely on just one type of food exclusively.

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