Lawmakers Fear Baby Food Makers Walmart, Campbell, and Sprout Organic Food Are Hiding Dangerously High Levels Of Heavy Metal Contamination

The three companies failed to cooperate with the US Congressional Subcommittee request for information

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 - Experts are checking in with the latest take on the US Congressional Subcommittee's finding of unacceptable levels of heavy metals contaminating the baby food brands fed to millions of American children every day. Parent's Magazine wrote that according to the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, "Some of America's biggest manufacturers of baby food have not been adequately testing and removing products with dangerous levels of heavy metals." Oversight.house.gov lists the exact brands that parents should avoid buying as: "Nurture, Inc. (Nurture), which sells Happy Family Organics, including baby food products under the brand name HappyBABY, Beech-Nut Nutrition Company (Beech-Nut), Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (Hain), which sells baby food products under the brand name Earth's Best Organic, Gerber, Campbell Soup Company (Campbell), which sells baby food products under the brand name Plum Organics, Walmart Inc. (Walmart), which sells baby food products through its private brand Parent's Choice, and Sprout Foods, Inc. (Sprout Organic Foods)." The last three companies, Walmart, Campbell, and Sprout Organic Food, failed to cooperate and respond to Congress' requests for heavy metal in baby food information raising concerns among lawmakers that they were trying to hide levels of heavy metals that are greater than what investigators had suspected.

The findings of the Subcommittee are quite disturbing as has been the industry's lack of an adequate response other than to deny the government's charges. Lawmakers found that all of the baby foods brands listed above "are tainted with significant levels of toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury." Researchers fear that ingesting this level of heavy metals regularly during the formative years can impact negatively on the child's intellectual development and could lead to being an unproductive adult and even encourage anti-social and even criminal behavior. All of the products tested higher for heavy metal contamination than the acceptable levels for drinking water. The reports suggest that "the test results of baby foods and their ingredients eclipse those levels (drinking water): including results up to 91 times the arsenic level, up to 177 times the lead level, up to 69 times the cadmium level, and up to 5 times the mercury level." What is most disturbing, however, is that the Food And Drug Administration (FDA) told investigators that they had the situation under control and that there was nothing to worry about. The FDA said they monitor the levels of heavy metals in all foods in the regular course of business. "Consumers should know that FDA scientists routinely monitor levels of toxic heavy metals in baby foods, along with other foods consumed in the country's diet, through the Total Diet Study," Parents reports. Baby food heavy metal lawsuits may be the only way that the FDA gets the message and recalls all baby foods that test positive for heavy metals.

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