All baby food manufacturers must consider toxic chemicals when they test their baby food for potential hazards, the US Food and Drug Administration said Friday. We appreciate your attention to your obligation to consider potential chemical hazards, including toxic elements, when conducting a hazard analysis, wrote Susan Mayne, director of the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, and Dr. Janet Woodcock, the FDA s acting commissioner of food and drugs, in a letter addressed to all baby and toddler food manufacturers and processors.
The FDA action came one month after a congressional investigation found several baby food manufacturers knowingly sold baby food that contained high levels of toxic heavy metals.
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February 23, 2021
Lawsuits regarding alleged fraud in the baby food industry following a House Subcommittee report continued to develop on Friday. Walmart and Sprouts were named as defendants in a District of Kansas class-action complaint along with Beech-Nut Nutrition Company; Campbell Soup Company, which produces Plum Organic foods; Gerber Products Company; Hain Celestial Group; and Nurture, Inc; each of which has been involved in multiple previous lawsuits concerning heavy metals found in baby food products.
Specifically, the defendants included North Castle Partners, which does business as Sprout Foods, Inc., and Walmart, Inc., which produces Parent’s Choice brand baby foods. These two companies were not listed among the others previously, possibly because the report published by the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy on February 4, 2021, did not contain information about th
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A new report reveals that the baby foods sold by a number of major manufacturers may be contaminated with poisonous heavy metals and President Donald Trump s administration, despite knowing about it, did nothing.
The House Oversight Committee released a report on Thursday based on a congressional investigation into the potential presence of toxic heavy metals including lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury in baby foods. Four baby food manufacturers provided Congress with information about the amount of toxic heavy metals in their foods based on their own internal testing, including Beech-Nut Nutrition Company, Gerber, Hain Celestial Group, Inc. and Nurture Inc. Between those four companies, Congress found that the companies allow dangerously high levels of toxic heavy metals in their foods and that the foods sold by the companies frequently exceed even those standards.
Baby food manufacturers caught knowingly selling products with toxic metals
Toxic metals like arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury exist in popular baby food that exceed the permissible levels.
February 8, 2021 10:48 GMT
AUS congressional investigation revealed that there are four leading baby food manufacturers which sold baby food that contained high levels of toxic metals. Worse, the manufacturers were aware of it.
The investigation into the toxic metal levels of the baby food products revealed the presence of lead, arsenic, mercury, and cadmium. The levels far exceeded the acceptable level of metals in food. No red flags : Fauci confident about COVID-19 vaccine trials for pregnant women