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Heavy Metals in Baby Food
If there is anything you can trust to be safe, it should
be baby food, right? Unfortunately, not quite.
According to a report from the US carriers of these metals. Additionally,
House Committee on Oversight and during food manufacturing and packaging,
Reform, commercial baby foods are metals may inadvertently contaminate
tainted with dangerous levels of arsenic, the final products. The U.S. Food & Drug
lead, cadmium, and mercury. The report Administration (FDA) identifies inorganic
was based on information from just four arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury as
companies that make baby food: Nurture, some of the most common metals that can
Beech-Nut, Hain, and Gerber. infiltrate the food supply chain.
Let’s dive deeper into this issue. Navigating Heavy Metal
Contamination
Recent studies revealing the presence In the wake of a recent study
of heavy metals in baby food have commissioned by Healthy Babies Bright
understandably raised concerns among Futures (HBBF), alarming revelations
parents. In an effort to shed light on this about toxic heavy metals, such as arsenic
critical issue, the American Academy of and lead, present in baby food have
Pediatrics provides insights into the risks come to light. The comprehensive study,
associated with toxic metal exposure in detailed in a recent report, scrutinized
children and guidance on minimizing 168 baby foods for the presence of four
potential harm. heavy metals: arsenic, lead, mercury, and
cadmium. The findings are staggering,
Sources of Heavy Metals with 95 percent of the tested baby foods
To comprehend how heavy metals find showing contamination by at least one of
their way into foods, it’s essential to these heavy metals. More concerning is
understand their natural occurrence in the fact that one in four baby foods tested
the Earth’s crust and their release into the positive for all four heavy metals, while
environment through pollution. Water and only nine out of 168 baby foods were free
soil, used for cultivating food, can become from traces of any of the metals.
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