The FDA has recently taken the heat from the U.S. House of Representatives, which released a report finding several baby food companies to have high toxic levels of heavy metals in their products. The Congressional report entitled, “Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury,” was released on February 4, 2021.
Of course, any amount of heavy metals in our—and especially our babies’ and children’s—food is too much. Nevertheless, when pressed a few years ago to come up with a maximum allowable residue of inorganic arsenic in apple juice, the FDA adopted the EPA’s rule on drinking water of 10 ppb. (See “FDA proposes new “action level” for arsenic in apple juice,” FE, July 30, 2013.)