A congressional subcommittee has found major baby food brands, have been knowingly selling baby food and products contaminated with dangerous levels of heavy metals including cadmium arsenic and lead.

including organics.

Read the following excerpt below:

On November 6, 2019, following reports alleging high levels of toxic heavy metals in baby foods, the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy requested internal documents and test results from seven of the largest manufacturers of baby food in the United States, including both makers of organic and conventional products:

• 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
• Sprout Foods, Inc. (Sprout Organic Foods)

Specifically, the Subcommittee reports that:

ARSENIC was present in baby foods made by all responding companies.

• Nurture (HappyBABY) sold baby foods after tests showed they contained
  as much as 180 parts per billion (ppb) inorganic arsenic. Over 25% of the
  products Nurture tested before sale contained over 100 ppb inorganic
  arsenic. Nurture’s testing shows that the typical baby food product it sold
  contained 60 ppb inorganic arsenic.
• Hain (Earth’s Best Organic) sold finished baby food products containing
  as much as 129 ppb inorganic arsenic. Hain typically only tested its
  ingredients, not finished products. Documents show that Hain used
  ingredients testing as high as 309 ppb arsenic.
• Beech-Nut used ingredients after they tested as high as 913.4 ppb arsenic.
  Beech-Nut routinely used high-arsenic additives that tested over 300 ppb
  arsenic to address product characteristics such as “crumb softness.”
• Gerber used high-arsenic ingredients, using 67 batches of rice flour that
  had tested over 90 ppb inorganic arsenic.

LEAD was present in baby foods made by all responding companies.

• Nurture (HappyBABY) sold finished baby food products that tested as
  high as 641 ppb lead. Almost 20% of the finished baby food products that
  Nurture tested contained over 10 ppb lead.
• Beech-Nut used ingredients containing as much as 886.9 ppb lead. It used
  many ingredients with high lead content, including 483 that contained
  over 5 ppb lead, 89 that contained over 15 ppb lead, and 57 that contained
  over 20 ppb lead.
• Hain (Earth’s Best Organic) used ingredients containing as much as 352
  ppb lead. Hain used many ingredients with high lead content, including
  88 that tested over 20 ppb lead and six that tested over 200 ppb lead.
• Gerber used ingredients that tested as high as 48 ppb lead; and used many
  ingredients containing over 20 ppb lead.

CADMIUM was present in baby foods made by all responding companies.

• Beech-Nut used 105 ingredients that tested over 20 ppb cadmium. Some
  tested much higher, up to 344.55 ppb cadmium.
• Hain (Earth’s Best Organic) used 102 ingredients in its baby food that
  tested over 20 ppb cadmium. Some tested much higher, up to 260 ppb
  cadmium.
• Sixty-five percent of Nurture (HappyBABY) finished baby food products
  contained more than 5 ppb cadmium.
• Seventy-five percent of Gerber’s carrots contained cadmium in excess of 5
  ppb, with some containing up to 87 ppb cadmium.

MERCURY was detected in baby food of the only responding company that tested for it.

• Nurture (HappyBABY) sold finished baby food products containing as
  much as 10 ppb mercury.
• Beech-Nut and Hain (Earth’s Best Organic) do not even test for mercury
  in baby food.
• Gerber rarely tests for mercury in its baby foods.
  These results are multiples higher than allowed under existing regulations for other
  products. For example, the Food and Drug Administration has set the maximum
  allowable levels in bottled water at 10 ppb inorganic arsenic, 5 ppb lead, and 5 ppb
  cadmium, and the Environmental Protection Agency has capped the allowable level of
  mercury in drinking water at 2 ppb. The test results of baby foods and their ingredients
  eclipse those levels: 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.

Internal company standards permit dangerously high levels of toxic heavy metals, and documents revealed that the manufacturers have often sold foods that exceeded those levels.

https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2021-02-04%20ECP%20Baby%20Food%20Staff%20Report.pdf

Why is this allowed to go on? Why aren't people screaming in the streets about this? It has to stop. Boycott these companies call them and tell them why call your representatives in government and demand they do something about it. At the very least please don't let your children or families children eat this toxic contaminated food.