Since then, a congressional committee has been assembled to legislate acceptability criteria for toxic heavy metals in these products. The FDA’s Closer to Zero plan lays out steps to minimize exposure, which includes improving current methodology to meet action levels in the proposed Baby Food ...
Food items can become contaminated by heavy metals in different ways and at different points in complex supply chains. Our investigators atPure Earthhave seen firsthand how agricultural soil can be polluted by industrial wastewater, resulting in conta...
It’s not new, but expect FDA to take a closer look at heavy metals and how you’re covering them in your food safety plan.
Toxicologist Stephanie Widmer told ABC News the presence of heavy metals in baby food shouldn't be a surprise since they are present in the soil used to grow crops. "We have to remember that heavy metals are in the soil where crops grow; they are part of the Earth," Widmer said....
An analysis of 50 nationally distributed packaged foods made for babies and toddlers had “troubling findings” when it comes to heavy metals, according to Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports’ food safety team reports that 68 percent of the products had
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has identified dietary exposure to heavy metals as a public health concern, focusing particularly on arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury. One way to determine current risk is to compare established safe exposure limits (reference values) with ...
Most people would do everything they can to protect the health of their children, so when Consumer Reports released a comprehensive study on heavy metals in baby food last week, it’s bound to create some panic. But I wanted to break down the study for you (which was carefully conducted ...
In January 2023, the FDA finally proposed lead limits as a result of these findings. (5)(6) In May 2024, US Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tammy Duckworth introduced legislation that aims to limit heavy metals in commercial baby food. Under the Baby Food Safety Act of 2024, scientifically-estab...
Since 2010, the FDA has gotten more than 9,000 pet food complaints ranging from sickness to death. Just last year, the non-profit “Clean Label Project” released an unprecedented study. It tested roughly 1,100 pet foods for heavy metals, BPA, pesticides and other toxins linked to cancer....
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published in 2011 a review of heavy metal safety for food intended for dogs and cats36, in which maximum tolerable levels (MTL) are presented for several heavy metals for these species. MTL is defined as the amount of the metal that, ...