Baby Food Check: Foreign Imports No Longer About Keeping Your Child from Being Poisoned

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Consumer Reports (CR) is out with a new study of heavy metals in baby food. 

CR’s latest tests included 14 products, representing a mix of fruits and vegetables; meals and entrees; and snacks, such as bars, puffs, and teething wafers. At least three samples of each product were tested and the 14 products likely to be high in a combination of arsenic, cadmium, and lead based on their ingredients or on previous CR tests.

CR focused on products that had concerning levels in tests five years ago. Seven of the products were ones tested in 2018; the other seven were similar to products that were previously tested but that are no longer on the market. More about how CR tests baby foods for heavy metals is available here.

To determine how many servings of each product a child could eat per day, CR’s food safety experts considered how much of that type of food kids typically eat, using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

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