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BumRushDaShow

(150,693 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 07:57 PM Jan 2025

FDA limits toxic lead in some baby foods

Source: ABC News/AP

January 6, 2025, 2:20 PM


The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday set maximum levels for lead in baby foods like jarred fruits and vegetables, yogurts and dry cereal, part of an effort to cut young kids' exposure to the toxic metal that causes developmental and neurological problems.

The agency issued final guidance that it estimated could reduce lead exposure from processed baby foods by about 20% to 30%. The limits are voluntary, not mandatory, for food manufacturers, but they allow the FDA to take enforcement action if foods exceed the levels.

It's part of the FDA's ongoing effort to “reduce dietary exposure to contaminants, including lead, in foods to as low as possible over time, while maintaining access to nutritious foods,” the agency said in a statement. Consumer advocates, who have long sought limits on lead in children's foods, welcomed the guidance first proposed two years ago, but said it didn't go far enough.

“FDA's actions today are a step forward and will help protect children,” said Thomas Galligan, a scientist with the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “However, the agency took too long to act and ignored important public input that could have strengthened these standards.”

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/fda-limits-toxic-lead-baby-foods-117391290



Link to FDA GUIDANCE - Guidance for Industry: Action Levels for Lead in Processed Food Intended for Babies and Young Children
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FDA limits toxic lead in some baby foods (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jan 2025 OP
Why should any toxic led be allowed in baby food? Or in anyone's food? Lonestarblue Jan 2025 #1
"some" ??? RandomNumbers Jan 2025 #2
Lead causes brain damage in children. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #3
Hi Irish Dem: And lead from ammunition is getting into people's systems. Who shoots more? Dems or GOP? C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 #9
Good question, I have no idea if lead from bullets is impacting GOP IQ. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #12
I think more Republicans (NRA types) shoot way more than Democrats (hunting, shooting ranges) C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 #13
Yes and they carry their guns around with bullets in their vests, etc. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #14
Ergo, more exposure to lead than Dems. Soldiers, police officers are all more exposed to lead than civilians. C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 #15
Like ancient Rome poisoning themselves with lead. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #16
Also many of the US rich, nepo babies have been heavy cocaine users since the 80's. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #17
Good point. And many of the Third Reich elite were damned dope fiends. C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 #18
We are living in the Fourth Reich now. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #19
Jahowl! C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 #20
What levels of lead are acceptable? JoseBalow Jan 2025 #4
Depends on whose kids are ingesting the lead. Probatim Jan 2025 #6
I'm sure manufacturing will get right on that voluntary mandate... nt EarthFirst Jan 2025 #5
Right after drumpf does away with the FDA JoseBalow Jan 2025 #7
FDA - half funded by the companies it regulates womanofthehills Jan 2025 #10
Especially since manufacturing pays half FDA's budget womanofthehills Jan 2025 #11
The Roman Empire did not do well eating and drinking from lead cups and bowls. C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 #8

Irish_Dem

(67,985 posts)
3. Lead causes brain damage in children.
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 08:28 PM
Jan 2025

Why does the FDA allow any of it in baby food?

No wonder the American IQ is dropping by the year.

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
9. Hi Irish Dem: And lead from ammunition is getting into people's systems. Who shoots more? Dems or GOP?
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 11:13 PM
Jan 2025

Firearms using lead ammunition spray lead dust out of the muzzle and ejection port when fired.
(Photo: Herra Kuulapaa Precires/Science Photo Library/Getty Images)

Link:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/10/527648768/lead-dust-from-firearms-can-pose-a-silent-health-risk

Irish_Dem

(67,985 posts)
12. Good question, I have no idea if lead from bullets is impacting GOP IQ.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 07:50 AM
Jan 2025

The MAGAs seem to have an intellectual deficit.
Something is causing it.

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
13. I think more Republicans (NRA types) shoot way more than Democrats (hunting, shooting ranges)
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 07:54 AM
Jan 2025

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
15. Ergo, more exposure to lead than Dems. Soldiers, police officers are all more exposed to lead than civilians.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 07:57 AM
Jan 2025

Irish_Dem

(67,985 posts)
16. Like ancient Rome poisoning themselves with lead.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 08:53 AM
Jan 2025

Did it lead to their downfall?

History repeating itself.

Irish_Dem

(67,985 posts)
17. Also many of the US rich, nepo babies have been heavy cocaine users since the 80's.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 08:54 AM
Jan 2025

These people make up our our current ruling class.

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)
18. Good point. And many of the Third Reich elite were damned dope fiends.
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 09:06 AM
Jan 2025

Hermann Goering, dope addict.

"In Sweden, where he worked for an aviation company (1925-1926), he was shut up in the insane hospital at Langbro, removed thence to Konradsberg, and thence back to Langbro. There his fits were so violent that he was transferred to the section for dangerous madmen. Finally, the Nazi biographers fail to mention that the man to whom they have intrusted the tutelage of 60,000,000 Germans was declared, by the tribunal which gave him his divorce, incapable of caring for his own son."




Coke fiend?

Link:

https://www.jta.org/archive/goering-drug-fiend-locked-up-in-asylum-documents-attest

womanofthehills

(9,626 posts)
10. FDA - half funded by the companies it regulates
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 02:28 AM
Jan 2025

“The Food and Drug Administration has moved from an entirely taxpayer-funded entity to one increasingly funded by user fees paid by manufacturers that are being regulated. Today, close to 45% of its budget comes from these user fees that companies pay when they apply for approval of a medical device or drug.”
https://today.uconn.edu/2021/05/why-is-the-fda-funded-in-part-by-the-companies-it-regulates-2/#

womanofthehills

(9,626 posts)
11. Especially since manufacturing pays half FDA's budget
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 02:42 AM
Jan 2025

Sounds like they are “suggesting”the lead comes out - guess you can’t tell the people who financially support you that babies lives matter.

What’s also gross is baby formula- corn syrup and GMO ingredients- glyphosate.

Baby formulas also contain aluminum, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, and cadmium.
https://gmoscience.org/2024/04/30/toxic-metals-in-babies-formula-overview/

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