A new California law mandates that baby food manufacturers disclose the results of heavy metal testing for their products. Consumers can access these results via QR codes on product labels, promoting transparency and accountability in the baby food industry.
A new California law requires baby food manufacturers to use an accredited lab to test representative samples of any infant and toddler food (excluding infant formula) at least once a month for levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury. As of Jan. 1, baby food manufacturers must provide those test results to the public on their websites. Anyone can access those results by scanning a QR code on the baby food label with their smartphones.
The new law applies only to sales of baby food in California, but major manufacturers -including market leaders Gerber and Beech-Nut - tell CNN they are rolling out QR codes on baby and toddler foods nationwide. 'This is a transparency law, and in the court of public opinion, transparency is where you breed accountability,' said Jaclyn Bowen, executive director of the Clean Label Project, a nonprofit dedicated to transparent food labeling. 'With all this information going public, we're going to force the conversation - what are we feeding America's children? Let's make sure that we're talking about nutrient-dense healthy baby foods that come from good healthy soils created by good environmental policy,' Bowen said. Over the last decade, investigations by consumer advocacy groups and a congressional subcommittee have discovered alarming levels of heavy metals in supermarket baby foods
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