Nearly all baby foods — both store-bought and homemade — that American parents feed their children contain detectable amounts of toxic heavy metals, a new study has found. The study, conducted by the ...

Before Celeste Rodriguez joined the Assembly, California already was monitoring heavy metals in prenatal vitamins and baby ...

Update: In March 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued an enforcement advisory letter to baby food manufacturers and retailers, reminding them of their responsibility to comply with ...

The alarm certainly sounded long and loud in 2022 when Abbott recalled Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare powdered infant formulas after an FDA investigation found Cronobacter sakazakii in the powdered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An example of how a baby food label may look under a new California law that requires baby food manufactures to provide test ...

Members of Congress and child advocates are pushing to ensure the safety of packaged baby food amid reports of tainted products being consumed by infants and toddlers. In an interview with ESSENCE, ...

Doctors and pediatric nutritionists explain why heavy metals are in baby food, if it's something to worry about, and tips for ...

While the amounts of lead, arsenic, and cadmium in baby foods appear to be getting lower, the overall risk hasn’t changed much in the past five years, according to new tests by Consumer Reports. The ...

Earth's Best, Once Upon a Farm, and Plum Organics earned top scores A new California law helps consumers figure out whether toxic elements are in their baby food. By Jessica D’Argenio Waller, MS, CNS, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Lead and other toxic heavy metals have been found in dangerously elevated amounts in some commercial baby foods sold in the United States, yet parents have had no way to know if ...