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Gerber Products Company is an American purveyor of baby food and baby products headquartered in Fremont, Michigan. Gerber Products Company is a subsidiary of Nestlé . Other Gerber products include breastfeeding pumps and other supplies, baby bottles and nipples, and health care products including tooth and gum cleanser and vitamin drops.
Gerber founded Fremont Canning Company in 1901 with his father to market local produce for the farmers. They canned peas, beans, and fruits on a seasonal basis. This company was the basis of the baby food industry. [2] Gerber became president of Fremont Canning Company in 1917 when his father died. [3]
Gerber Products Company is located in Fremont. The Gerber Products Company was originally started as the Fremont Canning Company. Fremont is known as "The Baby Food Capital of the World". [10] Fremont holds the annual National Baby Food Festival every third week of July, where over 50,000 people visit Fremont every year. [11]
One study found that 95% of baby foods tested contained at least one heavy metal. Plume Creative via Getty ImagesHeavy metals including lead, arsenic and mercury can be found in commercial baby ...
It is held in mid-July near the Gerber Products Company, a Nestlé company that manufactures baby food. The event was established in 1991. [1] Originally entitled Old Fashioned Days, this celebration celebrated its 20th anniversary as the Baby Food Festival on July 21, 2010.
Fremont Canning Company, owned and operated by Dan Gerber, was looking for a baby face for its new baby food campaign, which was to start in the later part of 1928. [2] To find a baby face that it believed would best represent the new baby food, the Fremont Canning Company conducted a contest in the summer of 1928. [ 3 ]
The company launched its first product, a line of fresh baby food called Babyblends [18] [16] As the company grew, they introduced a line called Plates. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] In September 2024 Little Spoon became the first baby food company in the United States to hold itself to the strict safety guidelines of the European Union (EU). [ 22 ]
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