Shocking New Report Finds High Levels Of Toxic Metals In Baby Food

Via America’s Lawyer: Congress unveils a report outlining sky-high levels of toxic heavy metals found across popular baby food brands. Was the FDA asleep at the wheel? Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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A new report has revealed shocking levels of dangerous heavy metals in baby food and FDA has been asleep at the wheel as usual. I have Farron Cousins with me to talk about it, he's the editor of the trial lawyer magazine and honestly, I don't, I just say this for the right reason, one of the best progressive reporters in this business, I really do mean that.

Thank you.

Farron, I looked at this story and I wasn't all that surprised, you know, it's the FDA, but lay this story out. Here we have, we have baby food that has cadmium, lead, arsenic in it and the FDA has been diddling around with this for a generation, almost. Take it from there.

It, it really has. What this report tells us and they've been looking into this for several years, because they had inklings, they had reports, they had internal documents that showed, okay, well, these baby food companies know they've got some heavy metals in their food. So let's find out how bad the problem is. They didn't compel any of these companies to cooperate, which is a big, big misstep by the way. But then we find out not only are there shocking levels, I mean, we're talking about hundreds of parts per billion more than what would be considered safe, but the FDA also has no limits. There's no limits on most baby food.

See, see that's the problem. They don't have limits on things like PFAS, for example, that's in our water because they haven't studied it. They, the politics have, have prevented it. They don't have limits on things like, like arsenic. They've got a limit on lead, which is one part per billion in baby food, which is way crazy because lead, because, because lead is cumulative. It's bio-persistent, and it's cumulative and it's bioactive in the system, causes neurological disease. But who, okay, so who are these companies? Let's call some names, Gerber, Beech-Nut, Happy baby, Campbell Soup and any time, by the way, anytime I see Nestle involved.

Yeah, Nestle’s Gerber.

Nestle is Gerber. What an awful company. I mean just the worst of the worst predator company. And so here, here's the point, they're saying this, which I think is ridiculous. Well, you know what, we tested each of the components. If we used rice, we tested the rice. If we use whatever we tested it, doesn't make any difference.

Right.

They never tested the end product, which is the composite of all of these metals.

Right. So, so they would take like, okay, well, the rice has some mercury in it. The, the, the carrots have some arsenic in it. The peas, they've got some lead, but we're just going to mix them all together and add all of these horrible things into this horrid concoction that you're feeding your child. We're not going to tell you about it. The FDA doesn't care about it. And it took Congress to finally say, hey, uh, companies, could you, would you be willing to hand over your studies? You don't have to if you don't want to.

Yeah.

This, this is systemic failures across the board.

Yeah. Please do it voluntarily.

Right.

You understand they do the same thing with the pharmaceutical industry.

Yeah.

Please, please would you please, oh, would you please give us this information? This is what they're doing here. Now, just to give you a sense of it. Okay. Beech-Nut, 800 parts per billion in lead, 800 parts per billion, 300 parts per billion of cadmium. Now we, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand, go Google it. See what cadmium can do to the neurological centers of your, of your body. See what lead can do. See what arsenic can do. These are all heavy metals. They collect in the body. They stay there. They don't move through the body and it's here today and gone tomorrow.

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