What baby food has toxic metals?

What baby foods have heavy metals in them?

• Infant rice cereal had high levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury.
• Rice-based snacks contained arsenic, lead, and cadmium.
• Grape and apple juice contained lead.
• Apple and other fruit juices contained arsenic.
• Carrots and sweet potatoes contained cadmium and lead.

Why do baby foods have heavy metals?

Heavy metals including arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury are naturally found on the planet, which can lead to absorption in food and water. But most that end up in foods come from water or soil that has been contaminated by pollution, manufacturing practices, or farming.

How do toxic chemicals get into baby food?

Toxic elements like arsenic are present in the environment and enter the food supply through soil, water or air.

Is baby food really toxic?

High levels of toxins found in more baby food brands, government report says. Eight months after a congressional report shed light on the issue of toxins in baby food, a new report finds more cases of major manufacturers selling baby food with high levels of toxic heavy metals.

Does all baby food have metal in it?

When making baby food, companies add vitamins and minerals along with food additives that may contain heavy metals. Some baby foods have higher levels of heavy metals than others, including: infant rice cereal.

Does Gerber baby food have metal in it?

A congressional subcommittee has found that baby food makers Gerber and Beech-Nut have not recalled products found to contain heavy metals, according to a report published Wednesday by the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy.

Is there metal in Gerber baby food?

Does Happy Baby Organics have heavy metals?

A congressional report released in February found that top baby foods carried dangerous levels of inorganic arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury — including products made by Happy Family Organics.

Which baby food brands are toxic?

Brands including Gerber, Plum Organics, Beech-Nut and Walmart are named in the report, which calls on baby food manufacturers to begin voluntarily testing their products for toxic heavy metals and to phase out products that contain large amounts of ingredients that test high in toxic heavy metals.