Toxic Ingredients Found In Top Baby Foods & California Energy Company Hit With Manslaughter Charges

Via America’s Lawyer: Back in February, the House of Representatives released an alarming report about toxic heavy metals found in popular baby foods, which can cause long-term developmental harm. Attorney Madeline Pendley joins Mike Papantonio to discuss how manufacturers now face a bundle of class-action lawsuits. Also, PG&E is charged with 11 felonies including manslaughter over the 2020 Zogg wildfire which killed 4 people in Northern California. Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Back in February, the House of Representatives released an alarming report about toxic heavy metals found in popular baby foods. Now manufacturers are in the hot seat facing a bundle of class actions, attorney Madeline Pendley joins me now to talk about this. You know, I, I, my takeaway on this, one of the first, one of the first things I read was the FDA has an action plan. That's almost an, that's an oxymoron.

Yeah, it's discouraging. It doesn't mean anything at all.

It means nothing's going to happen. Tell us why these class action lawsuits are about.

Essentially the biggest baby food manufacturers in the country have been poisoning your children. So these manufacturers have sold baby food that's contaminated with significantly high levels of very dangerous heavy metals, like arsenic, lead, mercury and children have been exposed to it for years.

It's a long-term exposure that's the issue. I mean, a doctor can say, yeah, if baby eats mashed up pears, that taste awful by the way, eats them, then they're probably going to be okay for that.

Right.

But when they do it day after day after day for years, it is that long-term exposure that causes the problem, right?

Right. So part of the problem with heavy metals is the exposure kind of builds up or accumulates in the body each time somebody is exposed. So really any exposure can add to a harmful amount of heavy metals in the body.

Yeah. In other words, you don't just rid your body of heavy metals, every 24 hours. It's bioaccumulative is what they would call it.

Exactly.

Some of them are what we call biopersistent.

Right.

But we do know this, it's bioactive. It affects, it affects your systems, your, your brain, other, other systems in the body. And they've known about, they, they've known about the dangers of heavy metals for decades and decades. Who are the companies that are involved in this?

It's a lot of really big household names, actually, you know, like Campbell's, Beech-Nut, Gerber, Happy Baby by Nurture and Parent's Choice by Walmart.

Doesn't it, doesn't that sound sick? Happy Baby has now, my memory is Happy Baby had, where it came to, it came to arsenic, it had like 600 times what it should have, 600 parts per billion. Is that right?

Exactly, yes.

And that is, that's off the scale.

Right.

And nevertheless, Happy Baby's selling the product and they're saying, gee whiz, everything's going to be okay. Your, your baby's going to be well taken care of. Some of them even advertise that it's organic and you don't have to worry about it, right?

Right. And the problem with organic is, I mean, whether this is true or not, when people are purchasing organic products, they're doing it because they want it to be safer to some extent, you know, they want it to be free from harmful chemicals and things like that. So it's especially frustrating that these companies were allowed to market their product as organic and therefore safer although it had significantly high levels of dangerous heavy metals.

What are the potential health impacts that we're talking about here? What would, what do we expect when you take a child that's in those developmental years and you expose them to heavy metals for years?

So what we know is, is one, this is not some hypothetical harm that we're talking about.

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