Posted on 02/05/2021 12:58:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
Many commercial baby foods "are tainted with significant levels of toxic heavy metals," a report released Thursday by a House subcommittee said, raising concerns over the safety of the products industry wide.
According to the staff report by the House subcommittee on economic and consumer policy, leading brands of U.S. baby foods contain dangerous levels of inorganic arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury, heavy metals that even at low levels pose particular risk to babies and children, both the U.S. Federal Drug Administration and the World Health Organization have said.
The report was based on internal documents and test results voluntarily submitted to the committee by Nurture, Beech-Nut, Hain and Gerber, showing that the companies were aware that their products were contaminated and to what degree but continued to sell them to unsuspecting parents anyways.
Walmart, Campbell and Sprout Organic refused to participate with the subcommittee's investigation, leading it to have "grave concerns" about the quality of their products, it said.
"The subcommittee is greatly concerned that their lack of cooperation might be obscuring the presence of even higher levels of toxic heavy metals in their baby food products than their competitors' products," the report said.
The report also found that the levels of toxic heavy metals in the foods often exceeded the companies' own internal standards that already permitted dangerously high levels of such contamination.
Arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury were found in food produced by all four companies, the report said, adding they were found at levels "multiples higher" than allowed under existing regulations for other products.
It also said that the administration of former President Donald Trump ignored a secret industry presentation to federal regulators that revealed the increasing risk of heavy metals in baby foods and that product testing was inadequate.
"The Trump FDA took no new action in response," the report said. "To this day, baby foods containing toxic heavy metals bear no label or warning to parents. Manufacturers are free to test only ingredients, or, for the vast majority of baby foods, to conduct no testing at all."
The subcommittee recommended for the FDA to require baby food manufacturers to test their finished products for heavy metals and not just their individual ingredients, for product labels to include levels of toxic heavy metals the foods contain, for the voluntary phase-out of ingredients that contain such metals and for the FDA to set maximum levels of toxic heavy metals permitted in baby foods.
Subcommittee chairman Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., said baby food manufacturers hold public trust and consumers mistakenly believe that they would not sell unsafe products.
"I hope companies will commit to making safer baby foods," he said in a statement. "Regardless, it's time that we develop much better standards for the sake of future generations."
Campbell, which makes baby food under the brand name Plum Organics, said it responded quickly to the subcommittee's questions and that "we are surprised that the committee would suggest that Campbell was less than full partners in this mission."
Walmart, which sells baby food under the brand name Parent's Choice, said in a statement to UPI that it provided the subcommittee with information nearly a year ago and invited more dialogue on the issue but never heard back from them.
The company said its manufacturers must comply will all laws and regulations while its own private table product suppliers must meet its own internal goods specifications.
"We will review the report now that it is available," it said.
Nurture's Happy Family Organics said on its website that it was "aware" of the report while stating it is "proud" of its testing protocols.
"We only sell products that have been rigorously tested and we do not have products in-market with contaminant ranges outside of the limits set by the FDA," it said.
Krishnamoorthi said he expects the FDA to make changes to how it regulates baby food following this report.
"I look forward to FDA's careful regulation of these toxic heavy metals in baby foods, followed by strict compliance requirements and mandatory consumer labels," he said.
Another bullet I dodged.
Homeschooling and a food processor. Easy peasy and just better.
I can correlate the rise of autism with the advent of deinstitutionalization too. We used to remove schizophrenics and bipolars from the gene pool. Now we all but openly encourage them to reproduce. Is it any wonder the country seems like it has gone crazy?
and the incidence of childhood diseases has dropped as a result. For example, epiglottitis is all but eliminated thanks to the Hib vaccine. Same with measles, mumps and rubella and Pertussis and tetanus, and diphtheria. Polio. Millions of American lives have been saved by vaccines. Millions of children have been spared needless suffering.
I had the couple-three obligatory shots to go to school as little kid and I’ve had a couple tetanus shots over the years.
Other than that, nothing else.
that might account fpr a small fraction
not enough to be the real reason
we have a declining birthrate and a high abortion rate
relatively speaking, almost all kids are getting a lot of vaccinations versus the much, much less chances they inherit any mental problems from parents
Vaccines of today are not as good as before. Why ate they putting aluminum in so many? Autism rates high by accident? Why so many dying with this covid vaccine?
sounds like a vast shakedown scheme to me.. not unusual for the Dems to target a specific business or products they detest like the truth or firearms.
This is the list of shots kids have to get in Texas to get into school. Our kids are pincushions. Wifey has talked about this a lot.
https://dshs.texas.gov/immunize/school/school-requirements.aspx
And the ones listed that they need to have they need more than once.
Probably coming from the aluminum in the cans. Notice the difference in taste between canned sodas and bottled pop? The same process that caused foods in lead-soldered cans to have toxic amounts of lead. The higher the acidity, the more lead was leached from the cans. Tomatoes are very acidic. The Romans used lead containers to store wine to add a “sweet taste”. More so in the upper class of Rome. Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Probably coming from the aluminum in the cans. Notice the difference in taste between canned sodas and bottled pop? The same process that caused foods in lead-soldered cans to have toxic amounts of lead. The higher the acidity, the more lead was leached from the cans. Tomatoes are very acidic. The Romans used lead containers to store wine to add a “sweet taste”. More so in the upper class of Rome. Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
according to who? based on what evidence?
Why ate they putting aluminum in so many?
Autism rates high by accident?
They keep expanding the diagnosis criteria. They also stopped locking crazy people up and stopped sterilizing them so they're reproducing now and the gene pool reflects that. That's why the country seems to have gone insane-because it has.
Why so many dying with this covid vaccine?
Over 27 Million Americans Have Received 1 Vaccine Dose so out of 27 million doses, exactly how many people have died? I have heard of a handful of deaths. let's say it's 100 deaths. That's a .000037% fatality rate. Covid has a 1-2% fatality rate and all I ever hear around here is how acceptable that number is. but .000037% is a problem? Let's say a thousand out of 27 million die. That's a .00037% fatality rate. let's say 10,000 out of 27 million people die. That's still just a .037% fatality rate. Way less dangerous than Covid. Truth is though, I don't think it's even a hundred. It's probably closer to 10. I don't know though. Do you have an actual number?
Um, the death rates of this virus are about the same as the flu in previous years so why the panic to get this vaccine?
Trump’s fault!
As if parents can’t put some of their own dinner veggies through the blender for Junior.
some breeders rely on the public school system, wic, snap, and whatever else to feed their offspring...
A little heavy metal can be very damaging. Why do they have to put heavy metal in vaccines?
When did we do that? For a brief period in the 20s?
Here, the welfare office secretary quit because the clients were raking in more freebies than what she was making working 40 hrs/wk.
maybe to develop the appreciation for fast cars, fast music, and fast women...
it worked for me...
but i had to slow down on the fast women part because they’re getting too expensive... 😎
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