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Baby food labels will disclose levels of lead and other toxic heavy metals via QR codes, thanks to a California law taking effect January 1. ... leaving fewer toxins for plants to absorb.
[1] [2] Significant portions of the City of Oakland, California have soil lead levels far in excess of 400 ppm, the level at which the US EPA suggests remedial action be taken, and far higher than 80 ppm, the level at which California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment suggests action should be taken. [3]
Baby foods and their ingredients had up to 91 times the arsenic level, up to 177 times the lead level, up to 69 times the cadmium level, and up to five times the mercury level that the U.S. allows ...
Between 2000-2010, the mean blood lead levels in Saline Co. averaged 16.5 ug/dL, more than double that of all other counties in Kansas which averaged 7.5 ug/dL [83] [84] and children living in the city of Salina, had a significantly higher mean blood lead level (3.00 μg/dL) compared to children living in all other Kansas zip codes (2.86 μg/dL ...
The FDA has set maximum levels for lead in baby food. A new California law requires baby food makers selling products in the state to disclose levels of four heavy metals.
Between the blood lead levels of 5 and 35 μg/dL, an IQ decrease of 2–4 points for each μg/dL increase is reported in children. [42] However, studies that show associations between low-level lead exposure and health effects in children may be affected by confounding and overestimate the effects of low-level lead exposure. [83]
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Additionally, the regulation lowers the action level of lead contamination to 10ppb from the current limit of 15ppb. [62] [63] Other incidents of widespread lead contamination include the Pittsburgh water crisis (started in 2014, discovered in 2016, ongoing in 2018) [64] and the Newark water crisis (in schools, 2016–2019). [65]