COVID-19 Now Leading Cause of Death in the United States
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.
That's also false. Go ahead and provide some data to support your falsehood. CDC has not reduced the death count related to COVID-19
Hospitals getting extra money for every covid death was probably not a wise decision.
You have a very limited understanding of the subject you're talking about. Treating Covid patients on the scale that we have seen is complicated and expensive. Fairly compensating hospitals for treating sick and highly contagious people was wise. Bankrupting our nation's hospitals in the middle of this event would be unwise. The hospitals, incidentally, are given extra money for every Covid patient, not for every Covid death and it is the Coroner, not the hospital, that creates the death certificate.
Furthermore, every death in a hospital that is attributed to Covid has mountains of legally documented clinical evidence to support the diagnosis including: a positive Covid test, lab work, chest XRays, Chest CT scans, attending physician progress notes, pulmonologist progress notes, respiratory therapy progress notes, nursing notes, vital signs, etc.
I have stated that I can appreciate paranoia in these unprecedented times but this particular battle has been fought over and over and over and the evidence just doesn't support your position. You need to improve your conspiracy theorizing because these ones are completely dubunked..
COVID-19 Now Leading Cause of Death in the United States
Really. I know of two people who were terminal, in hospice that died as expected, on the expected time frame, both miraculously from COVID. They were never tested for it. So don’t claim 0 fraud.
Sorry but you are wrong. Not to mention five democrat governors purposely went infected people to nursing homes killing tens of thousands, driving up numbers. But I suppose you deny that too since CNN and the like “forgot” to report that. There are some Soros bots in here.
Sorry but you are wrong. Not to mention five democrat governors purposely went infected people to nursing homes killing tens of thousands, driving up numbers. But I suppose you deny that too since CNN and the like “forgot” to report that. There are some Soros bots in here.
Sorry, but you have provided no evidence to support that conclusion. I have refuted every claim you made.
Not to mention five democrat governors purposely went infected people to nursing homes killing tens of thousands, driving up numbers. But I suppose you deny that too since CNN and the like “forgot” to report that.
well, they still died of Covid and that was a year ago and has very little relevance to the current situation.
There are some Soros bots in here.
Your theories are weak and have been proven false repeatedly. It has nothing to do with George Soros and you sound even nuttier now.
Re-read my comment. They were never tested. The only 2 deaths I know of and both were classified as COVID without a positive test.
You proved nothing except in your warped head.
I feel the exact same way about you.
You don’t even support President Trump so why would I care what a dullard like you thinks about anything? Stick to your CNN BS.
Mercury, huh? I’ve been wondering why we’ve seen such a marked increase in mental illness in the last two generations... I guess we know now.
Fake crap. Sorry but even President Trump knows the CDC is full of crap. Soros bot.
Nothing fake about it. You aren’t able to provide a screenshot verifying your own support of Trump because you didn’t give the man a dime. and then you have the nerve to accuse someone else of not supporting him? You are a scum bag POS.
You gave nothing to anybody except rinos. Soros bot.
Show me some evidence that you supported Donald Trump scum bag. otherwise, STFU. You can’t do it because you never supported him.
Soros bot
idiot nut job.
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