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 ...

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 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 ...

“Government actions to protect babies from the toxic heavy metals in their food are long overdue. Every day that passes, nearly 10,000 more babies in the U.S. begin eating solid food.