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.
Nevada parents sue several baby food manufacturers over toxic metal claims
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KTRK) A group of Nevada parents are suing several major baby food manufacturers after they claim the companies failed to disclose that their products contain toxic metals.
The companies named in the suit include Gerber, Haines Celestial Group, Beech-Nut Nutrition and Nurture Incorporated. The lawsuit also names two supermarkets for selling the products.
The lawsuit cites a Congressional report, released on February 4, that claims several brands of baby food sold in the U.S. contain dangerous levels of arsenic, lead and mercury. At Gerber, babies are our highest priority, company officials wrote in a statement last month. Parents can rest assured our products are healthy and safe. Heavy metals occur naturally in the soil and water in which crops are grown. As stated in our 2019 response to the Congressional Inquiry, we take many steps to minimize their presence. We rema
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
On February 4, 2021, the U.S. House of Representative’s Committee On Oversight and Reform (Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy) issued a report entitled “Baby Foods Are Tainted With Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium and Mercury“, which sent ripples of concern through the consumer ranks and the baby food industry. Heavy metals in baby food has received attention before, but never before in such a significant way from a House Subcommittee report like the one published this month. The findings and the proposed changes to regulations for the baby food industry that the subcommittee put forth will have significant compliance impacts on companies, as well as open certain baby food companies up to litigation risks that cannot be ignored.