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TOXICS: FDA rules for baby food guided by feasibility, not safety

Published: Thursday, April 8, 2021
A baby eating rice cereal. Photo credit: Phong Duong/Unsplash
Rice cereal is often one of the first foods introduced to babies. What many parents don t know is that the Food and Drug Administration allows 10 times as much arsenic in rice cereal as in other products. Phong Duong/Unsplash
This story was updated at 2:55 p.m. EDT.
When parents first serve solid foods to their babies, they often turn to infant rice cereal. The iron-fortified mix is nutritious and relatively easy to feed babies unaccustomed to spoons or strong flavors.
But the Food and Drug Administration allows 10 times as much arsenic in this favored first food as it does in other products, like bottled water and apple juice despite the fact that, as a neurotoxin, arsenic can have an outsize impact on babies, whose brains are still developing. ....

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Recommended Threshold
A February 4, 2020, report issued by U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy examined heavy metal levels in baby food products (the Report). The Report found high levels of heavy metals (inorganic arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury) in the final products. The Report concluded baby foods are “tainted” with toxic heavy metals and criticized FDA’s lack of regulatory action on ensuring the safety of baby food.
The Report recommended FDA adopt the following actions:
Mandatory testing of finished products
Labeling: Require disclosure of heavy metal levels on food labels ....

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