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Top baby foods contain toxic heavy metals, congressional panel finds
- samizdis 6y agoIt's notable that Axios has titled its piece without adjectival drama. The report [1] from the House Oversight subcommittee carries the title, "Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury" (my emphasis on "Dangerous"). [1] https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2021-02-04%20ECP%20Baby%20Food%20Staff%20Report.pdf https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.... Edited to add: The WaPo article [2] mentioned by Axios is similarly restrained in its titles: "New report finds toxic heavy metals in popular baby foods. FDA failed to warn consumers of risk." "Gerber, Beech-Nut, HappyBABY and Earth’s Best Organic baby foods contained arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury, report found" [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/04/toxic-metals-baby-food/?itid=hp-top-table-main https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/04/toxic-met...
- moistly 6y agoHeavy metal poisoning would explain a lot of social issues. Maybe I’m just old and grumpy, but it seems to me that we have an excessive number of people who are violent, and waaaay too many who are dull-witted and susceptible to the most inane sales pitches, political shysterism, and religious lunacy. Eating lead and cadmium to excess during infancy could well be the cause.