We’ve heard from a number of our patients at White Mountain Community Health Center who are concerned about the headlines that baby food can contain high levels of heavy metals. These news articles are covering a new Congressional report calling for the FDA to regulate heavy metals in baby food in the same way it regulates them in bottled water and other products. Many currently contain high levels of lead, arsenic, mercury and cadmium.
The report is worrisome, but parents shouldn’t panic. The concern is about population-level health effects, and it’s unlikely that any individual child has consumed enough of any of these products to have an acute effect.
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