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So many solutions are already available to reduce heavy metals levels in baby food. Companies can require suppliers and growers to test, and can choose ingredients with lower levels. Growers can use soil additives, different growing methods and crop varieties known to reduce lead in their products.
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The FDA hasn’t done enough with these proposed lead limits to protect babies and young children from lead’s harmful effects. There is no known safe level of lead exposure, and children are particularly vulnerable.
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Nearly all baby foods on the market already comply with what they have proposed.
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Inorganic arsenic averaged 100 parts per billion in brown rice infant cereal and 74 parts per billion in white rice infant cereal in our tests, baby food companies have taken brown rice cereal off the market because of its high arsenic levels.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Rice cakes, rice puffs, crisped rice cereals and brown rice with no cooking water removed are heavily contaminated with inorganic arsenic, which is the more toxic form of arsenic.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
And Healthy Babies , Bright Futures is exactly what Healthy Babies , Bright Futures found -- heavy metals were in foods from every section of the store.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
As a parent, you don't know what you're picking up out of the produce bin, is it elevated because of the cultivar -- the particular type of sweet potato or carrot ? Or is it elevated because it's grown in an area where the soil has naturally high levels of lead ? Answering these questions will be the responsibility of government regulators and industry, Houlihan said. The FDA has a Closer to Zero campaign, for example, which could take on the issue.CNN has reached out to The FDA for comment but hasn't yet received a response.
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There's also not as much evidence that cadmium is neurotoxic to babies, or at least the body of evidence isn't there at the same levels as lead and arsenic, lead and arsenic damage isn't reversible -- these are permanent impacts on IQ, learning ability and behavior, so it's a big deal.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Making even one simple choice every day to lower a child's exposure will make a difference, whether that's staying away from rice-based snacks and serving a diced apple instead or choosing not to serve carrots and sweet potatoes every day, with heavy metals and other toxins the risks add up over a lifetime.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
After that report Healthy Babies , Bright Futures saw so many people saying you can get around this problem by making your own baby food at home, so Healthy Babies , Bright Futures decided to check, healthy Babies , Bright Futures suspected Healthy Babies , Bright Futures'd find heavy metals in all kinds of food because they're ubiquitous contaminants in the environment.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Even in trace amounts, these contaminants can alter the developing brain and erode a child's IQ, the impacts add up with each meal or snack a baby eats — especially when the levels are as high as Healthy Babies Bright Futures' research and the subcommittee's new report show.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
In setting the action level that is driving the recall, FDA didn't consider harm to infants' developing brains and failed to account for children who eat more than average amounts of rice.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
To our knowledge, this is the first recall of infant rice cereal due to high arsenic levels.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The FDA should lower the allowable limit, in the meantime, parents have options -- other types of infant cereal have one-sixth as much arsenic as infant rice cereal, on average, and are safer choices.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The FDA announcement of the recall is great news, it's so important for babies that this cereal not make it to market. We fully support FDA's enforcement action to help reduce arsenic exposures for these little ones who are so vulnerable.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Their brain is forming rapidly, and so when they're exposed to metals that can interrupt those natural processes, the impacts range from behavioral problems to aggression to IQ loss and all kinds of cognitive and behavioral deficits that can persist throughout life, pound for pound, babies get the highest dose of these heavy metals compared to other parts of the population.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
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