While there is a focus on infant and toddler food, heavy metal contamination, including lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury, is relatively common across the food supply Helena Bottemiller Evich, Policito 2021 ‘Parents Erupt Over FDA Failure To Regulate Toxic Metals in Food Lead, arsenic and cadmium are commonly found in baby foods, but also in…
lead
A Host Of Common Chemicals Endanger Children’s Brains
“Our mothers were told to worry about the 4 basic food groups, and we’re told to worry about pesticides, preservatives, corn syrup, saturated fat, sodium, sugar, gluten, genetically modified, hormones, AAAHHHHH!!! How do I feed my kids without poisoning them?!” ~Odd Mom Out: Jill Kargman Children in America today are at an unacceptably high risk of developing…
Hide and Seek Toxic Lead, It’s Not Child’s Play
“No blood lead level has been found to be safe for a child,”~ Dr. Mary Jean Brown, chief of the lead poisoning prevention branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention We’ve known about the dangers of lead, a neurotoxin, for years now. We know that even low levels of lead exposure can lower…
A Tale Of Dead Birds and Black Ooze in NJ
June 18, 2013 Update Harvard study: autism doubles in dirty air. US kids born in polluted areas more likely to have autism. Boston, MA — Women in the U.S. exposed to high levels of air pollution while pregnant were up to twice as likely to have a child with autism as women who lived in…