Investigative reporting reveals harmful toxins in school lunches, prompting calls for stricter regulations and action from key Senators.
Senator John Fetterman has long championed accessibility to free school lunch for all kids. Now, he's demanding that the food be free of harmful, toxic ingredients. We found harmful toxins that could impact developing children, but there are no standards in place to protect kids. Now, our reporting is getting traction in Congress, where key Senators want to reach across the aisle to take action. U.S.
Senator John Fetterman can't believe we're even having a conversation about the safety of school lunches. 'I would never be okay with a school lunch that I wouldn't feed to my own children,' said Fetterman. 'We should all demand that.' Families across America rely on school lunches to nourish their children. In fact, 30 million kids a day depend on them. Still, there's a blind spot that we uncovered when we sent school lunches to a specialized testing lab in Iowa. Simple school lunches collected in Washington D.C., Virginia and Maryland that consisted of things like pizza and salad -- were found to contain unseen, largely unregulated toxins that have been linked to developmental delays, liver disease and even cancer.38 different pesticides were detected in just one elementary school lunchThe fungicide, carbendazim, which is banned in most European countries, Brazil and Australia because it is increasingly connected to cancer, infertility, and birth defects, was found in five of our twelve samplesCadmium, a known carcinogen, was detected in our samples at a level 12 times higher than the FDA’s limit for bottled waterLead, of which there is no safe level, was found in 100% of our samplesby US Senator Cory Booker this fall, when he introduced groundbreaking legislation to address dangerous additives, chemicals, pesticides, and heavy metals in school lunches. 'It think it is more of a crisis than most Americans can even begin to realize,' said Booke
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