https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20191017/study-95-percent-of-baby-foods-contain-heavy-metals
Oct. 17, 2019 -- Nearly all foods made for babies contain at least one toxic heavy metal that can harm brain development, according to a large new study that tested 13 different types of baby foods, including puffs, infant formula, teething biscuits, juices, cereals, and purees.
The study was conducted by a nonprofit called Healthy Babies Bright Futures. It tested 168 containers from 61 brands for the heavy metals arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury. The foods were purchased at major retail stores across the U.S.
Ninety-five percent of the baby foods tested contained one or more toxic metals. About a quarter of them contained all four. Only nine of the samples tested had no toxic metals detected.
The study points out that the FDA has failed to set safety limits or even health guidelines for 88% of the foods tested in the study. The authors have called on the agency to push baby food makers to take steps to lower heavy metals in their products.
Dear friends and colleagues, in last years I seriously focused on removing heavy metals by green and safe methods such as bioremediation and ........If you are interested please join me in these projects, unfortunately our organizations do not support or even take care of these problems and disasters, so sorry to say that!
according to a new study strong chance the baby's food contains traces of toxic heavy metals, including arsenic and lead,
Yes I read and I am sure they are doing this ...
But do you know who are they ...?
In my opinion, this news only reflects the fact that we live in a polluted world. If we accept as a working hypothesis that heavy materials get into products for children with raw materials, it means that “pure” raw materials, if these exist, are extremely inaccessible. Careful selection of raw materials (with analysis), in order to avoid heavy metals from entering baby food, will make it much more expensive and therefore inaccessible to most. One can require that the fields and farms on which raw materials are grown must pass certification for soil contamination (it is difficult to imagine a situation where soil contaminants do not appear in the products). Of course, the price of such raw materials will skyrocket. Then there will appear really "pure" products for the rich and affordable for the "others". Then a tough conversation about discrimination, inequality, etc. will begin. This is a dead end, brothers and sisters.
The most likely next step is the transition to the production of industrial biosynthesis, i.e. a complete break with nature. But what unpleasant news will appear after that?
Thank you dear Parisa Ziarati for sharing such a research .. Really a very important and worthwhile topic ..
This is a great socio technological problem that no one maintain FDA / US FDA norms .And the regulatory authorities are also sitting idle particularly in India .
https://www.researchgate.net/project/INTER-DISCIPLINARY-RESEARCH-AND-ACADEMIC-ITEMS-A-PROJECT/update/5da9685ccfe4a777d4e79e1a?_iepl%5BviewId%5D=H1cFlOyd6NOtS7nH8XVKjikU&_iepl%5Bcontexts%5D%5B0%5D=projectUpdatesLog&_iepl%5BinteractionType%5D=projectUpdateDetailClickThrough
How manufacturers have obtained approvals, inspection, and quality control before approving its use. There are well-established international companies that manufacture baby food with experience and a well-known international brand, and finally there are courts and legal departments that do not allow this.
Is this a general topic or a limited level?
Yes I read!
But what is the solution?
For anything we prevent our children from eating!
Dear friends and colleagues, in last years I seriously focused on removing heavy metals by green and safe methods such as bioremediation and ........If you are interested please join me in these projects, unfortunately our organizations do not support or even take care of these problems and disasters, so sorry to say that!
Great concern, many parents till not know this fact, we have to create awareness amongst families
I agree with Mahavir Balmukund Varma 's answer.
https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20191017/study-95-percent-of-baby-foods-contain-heavy-metals
Please also have a look at this RG link.
Article Occurrence of Lead and Cadmium in some Baby Foods and Cereal Products
My dear Respected colleagues ,
You can think about the air , water , and the soil , Everything in around is already poisoned ... and not only the baby’s food ...
Yes, I heard about it. A lot of canned foods contain toxic substances. I prefer natural foods because of their natural properties.
Greetings
Hi,
Baby foods are logically bound to contain such compounds, though the manufacturers claim not to have them in the food. But, for the sake of increasing the shelf life of the product, additives containing mild quantities of such metals are definitely used. the warning note in instant foods state " Not suitable for children under 3 years of age". Isn't that alarming too?!
The baby food in nutshell contains meal, fruits and vegetables- oatmeal, brown rice, and multi-grain cereals, fruits and vegetable blends with flavours such as black beans,beets, and banana It also contains salmon and veggies sometimes freeze-dried wafers coconut creamies and so on... It is obvious that there are all chances that heavy metals may get entry into it. WHO has recommended recently the free sugars should contribute less than 10% of total energy intake for children and warn against the addition of free sugars to food for infants and young children. Total sugar in fruit purees marketed as baby food was found on average to be more than 70% of total energy.
It has been reported that heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury are due to brown rice and green vegetables some cereals and few juices. Baby food containing rice as well as sweet potatoes if found in baby food should be avoided. As a environmentalist you will appreciate that pesticides do enter the food environment but heavy metals even naturally also are found in air soil and water. Even crops absorb heavy metals. It is unavoidable to completely remove the heavy metals from the baby food.
Who should prescribe the stringent norms for the ingradients to be used in the baby food alongwith the proportion of each of the blends thereof.
Please note - the report offered no quantitative data. These are elements present in nature and will be present in foods at some level. Risk assessment is not possible without such data. Offering that the FDA ignores such risks is clearly false - e.g. https://www.fda.gov/food/metals/arsenic-food-and-dietary-supplements
This partial report, not even offered in a published/peer-reviewed format ,is clearly sensationalism by an activist organization.
If this has happens in the USA, then it’s scary to think about what can be found on the market of other countries. In the former USSR, there was a system of state standards, including product quality standards for children. In the event of violations, the manufacturer had faced with state charges. In modern Russia, it has been replaced by a system of mandatory product certification under the slogan "The market will put everything in its place." It is very likely that the market is not “put” anything. Manufacturing companies, declaring their products meet standards (including safety), do not comply these, striving to maximize profits. In addition, this system is potentially corruptogenic. Apparently only consumers or their associations can sue producers, which does not bother the manufacturer too much, since product analyzes are available only to sufficiently strong and certified laboratories and are very expensive. Moreover, if quality (functionality, service life, etc.) can be directly evaluated by consumers, then it is almost impossible to assess safety a priori by simple means. It is extremely difficult to prove the connection of negative consequences (if these, God forbid, appears) and the level of food contamination.
Therefore, a reasonable step was to divide the quality and safety requirements, making safety control the goal of state policy, leaving a quality assessment for the consumer.
Phil Geis
Is this your opinion or accurate knowledge? Do you have experience of analyzing of Soviet products for children? The USSR had many sins, but irresponsibility, as a rule, was punished.
As to the above article - yes i have accurate knowledge. They reported, in a casual format, PRESENCE. Toxicity (as the father of toxicology observed) is in the DOSE. With a sufficiently-sensitive assay, one can find about any of these elements in any foodstuff.
As to Russia - did you read the link? The issue is quality - not whether someone was or was not punished. As it is not possible to know all who "sinned" - we do not know if all were punished.
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