Consumer Reports: Risk of Toxic Heavy Metals in Baby Foods Mostly Unchanged Since 2018
According to new tests by Consumer Reports (CR), although 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.
The last time CR tested baby foods in 2018, 33 of 50 foods were associated with potential health risks for kids due to combined exposures from those three heavy metals. Since that time, there has been a push for baby food manufacturers to make products safer, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made efforts to lower the levels of toxic heavy metals in foods for babies and young children through its Closer to Zero initiative.