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 ...

Most baby food in the US—both store-bought and homemade, organic and conventional—is often an inadvertent source of toxic heavy metals. As a parent or caregiver, it’s tough to know what to do with ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Lead, inorganic arsenic, cadmium and mercury are heavy metals that research shows can cause damage to a baby’s brain. Yet multiple studies have found that 95% of baby food sold in ...

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 ...

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 ...