Sweet potatoes, rice puffs and carrots were flagged as products with the most concerning levels of toxic heavy metals. See what popular brands were tested and what pediatricians recommend here.
There are several things that you might expect to be in baby’s food, from squashed bananas to pureed carrots, peas and more. What you might not be expecting—toxic heavy metals.2018 after Consumer Reports
Now, five years and several policy and manufacturer changes later, Consumer Reports sought to conduct the same test to see what changes had really been made, if any. Their conclusion—while the amounts of lead, arsenic, and cadmium in baby foods appear to be getting lower, the overall risk hasn’t changed much in the last five years.
“In some of the products, declines in certain heavy metals were offset by increases in others, so there was little change in the amount of the foods babies could eat. And we still found worrisome levels in foods that our last tests showed to be the most concerning, namely rice, sweet potatoes, and snack foods,” James E.
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