When researchers tested both homemade baby food and store-bought, they found that 94% of both homemade store-bought baby foods tested contained more than four toxic heavy metals. The researchers ...

The nonprofit Healthy Babies Bright Futures analyzed 168 baby foods in 2019 and found toxic metals in 95% of them. In 2022, Healthy Babies Bright Futures tested homemade baby food to see if it's ...

The law, which passed in 2023 and went into effect in 2024, requires baby food manufacturers to test each product they sell in the state of California (excluding infant formula) for lead, mercury ...

If you can find a product on a store shelf, it’s been tested for safety standards and contains nothing harmful, right? Unfortunately, it’s not that black and white. And even the most unsuspecting of ...

Yet multiple studies have found that 95% of baby food sold in stores has trace levels of heavy metals. “Problems related to lead poisoning can last the child's whole life.

The combined investigations led to the introduction of the Baby Food Safety Act of 2024, which is still stuck in committee. In October 2023, however, California acted on its own. "The AB 899 ...

Several Recent Studies Reviewed Ventre and her co-authors decided to examine the issue after reports of toxic metals in baby foods became more widespread in 2019, prompting families to raise safety ...

How To Make Baby Food, Step-By-Step 1. Wash And Clean Clean your hands, prep area, utensils and appliances thoroughly. Babies have developing immune systems and are more susceptible to harmful ...

Unsafe levels of toxic heavy metals have been found in store-bought and homemade baby food. Learn how to avoid these in your baby's foods and snacks.

Toxic Elements Come From Variety of Sources After the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) developed an action plan for reducing toxic metals in baby foods in 2019, it issued draft guidance for ...