A new report is showing some of the most popular brands of baby food still contain heavy metals - arsenic, cadmium and lead - several years after a similar report also showed concerning levels of the substances.
showing brands including Earth's Best Organic, Organics Happy Baby, Beechnut Naturals, Gerber and Baby Mum-Mum all containing amounts of the three metals. The report said while some amounts had decreased over the past five years, the overall risk from the foods had not changed much.
"Some of the products were actually better in terms of heavy metals," said Dr. James Rogers, director of food safety research and testing for the nonprofit."In fact, we were able to recommend to parents if they so desire, they could feed more servings of three of the products. One of the products stayed the same. Three of the products actually did worse, so we had to reduce the amount of each of these products.
"All our decisions are factored around Jack and it comes down to what we eat too," said Berger."I figure I like this stuff ... so why not let him have some of that benefit as well?""You know when you are a working mom, you don't always have time to put things together," she said."You gotta use what you have and do it quickly."
Where it gets tricky is the snack foods, because many of them are made with rice and kids tend to eat a lot of them, like those popular puffs. One serving is only 50 puffs.
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