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To: Acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Janet Woodcock
Tell the FDA: Keep heavy metals out of baby food!
According to a shocking new report, popular baby food brands like Gerber and Beech-nut contain dangerous levels of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals. Even organic baby foods contain high levels. And the FDA has known for years but hasn’t acted! Acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Janet Woodcock must take emergency action now to regulate baby food and ensure that they don’t contain any dangerous heavy metals.
Why is this important?
When babies ingest toxic heavy metals, the results can be disastrous. According to the Environmental Working Group, it can increase the risk of cancer, lead to behavioral and learning issues and even slow growth and development.
While the FDA hasn’t established limits for heavy metals in baby food in general, it has established a limit of 100 parts per billion of arsenic in rice cereal. Incredibly, one of the baby food brands highlighted by the report has nearly twice that much arsenic.
The Food and Drug Administration has been studying heavy metals in food for years, but still hasn’t taken steps to keep babies and the rest of us safe. That needs to change – and we need your help to make it happen.
Sign the petition now calling on the Food and Drug Administration to take emergency action now to ensure baby foods do not contain any dangerous heavy metals.