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presenting data on children and environmental health.America's Children and the
Environment brings together information from a variety of sources to provide
national children's environmental health indicators. This booklet presents a
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95% of
tested baby foods in the US contain toxic metals, report says
Toxic heavy metals damaging to your baby's brain development
are likely in the baby food you are feeding your infant, according to a new
investigation published Thursday.
Tests of 168 baby foods from major manufacturers in the US
found 95% contained lead, 73% contained arsenic, 75% contained cadmium and 32%
contained mercury. One fourth of the foods contained all four heavy metals.
One in five baby foods tested had over 10 times the 1-ppb
limit of lead endorsed by public health advocates, although experts agree that
no level of lead is safe.
The results mimicked a previous study by the Food and Drug
Administration that found one or more of the same metals in 33 of 39 types of
baby food tested.
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