Baby Food Manufacturers Need To Be Held Financially Accountable For Failing To Test Their Final Products

Ensuring the safety of the food we feed our children is an ongoing battle for concerned organizations

Wednesday, December 29, 2021 - Hundreds of organizations in America specialize in food safety, and most concentrate their efforts on finding heavy metals in baby food. Heavy metal concentrations in baby food are of concern because an infant's brain, nervous system, and digestive system are in the developmental stage and can be damaged more easily than an adult's. Despite the best efforts to get companies to test their products more thoroughly, baby food manufacturers have been able to get away with an unacceptably high tolerance for toxic heavy metal contaminants like mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, and others. The baby food industry has been largely self-regulating and has escaped scrutiny for the safety of baby food. The industry's lack of candor in taking their responsibility for food safety seriously is apparent when one considers that only the raw ingredients that go into baby food are tested for heavy metals, not the finished product that is fed to children. Companies are within their rights by doing the minimum testing, however, they may have deliberately looked the other way when failing to go the extra mile and test their finished products for heavy metals.

Under pressure from baby food safety watchdog organizations, the US Congress picked up where the baby food industry left off. The Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy of the US House of Representatives made public their report of finding unacceptably high concentrations of heavy metals arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury in many popular baby food products. The report found high levels of heavy metals in strained carrots, rice cereal, applesauce, and teething crackers. Of immediate concern to lawmakers was that about half of the companies that were asked to voluntarily cooperate with their investigation failed to do so. According to FoodSafetyTech.com, "Four of the companies, Nurture, Beech-Nut, Hain, and Gerber, responded to the request. They provided internal testing policies, test results for ingredients and finished products, and documentation about how they handled finished products and ingredients that exceeded their internal testing limits. On the other hand, Walmart, Campbell, and Sprout Organic Foods refused to partake in the investigation. The Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy members are very concerned that the lack of cooperation of these manufacturers could obstruct the presence of even higher levels of heavy metals in their products than their competitors."

Parents of children with autism, ADHD, developmental delays, or other neurological disorders may seek compensation by filing a baby food heavy metal lawsuit against the manufacturer of the baby food they feed their child. Most baby food lawyers will work on a contingency meaning that you pay nothing unless you receive a favorable settlement. Above all, it is up to the legal community to hold multi-billion dollar baby food manufacturers and sellers like Walmart, Campbell, Sprout, Gerber, Beech-Nut, and others, accountable for failing to test their final baby food products for toxic heavy metals and to warn parents if necessary.

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