These baby foods should be drawn from grocery shelves immediately, claims in lawsuits
The articles are sold in two popular grocery stores.
Dangerous levels of lead have been detected in two happy totalsbaby food Products Made by happy family organizations, a new legal action. Articles are sold in popular grocery storesTarget andWhole foods, both named in the complaint filed by the Ecological Alliance in Los Angeles.
The products called in the judicial documents are apples and oat bars with oven-cooked spinach and spinach with sauce sauce. A portion of the bars contains more than one day of the amount of maximum acceptable lead for children and a portion of pasta contains 12 times the maximum amount, according to the complaint.
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Lead exposure can cause health problems such as brain damage and kidney damage, and can reduce growth and development among children, according toThe Mayo Clinic. Food can be contaminated during production and treatment processes, adds:
"For example, vegetables can be grown in a lead-containing soil, or exposed to the exhaust of fuel containing lead. Lead can flee in canned foods manufactured with lead welding."
The trial was deposited against Nurture Inc., the mother of Happy Family Organics. It also names the target and whole foods because they are the greatest sellers of both happy totals.
"Whole foods would not sell an apple grown with pesticides, but they continued to sell baby foods containing frightful quantities of wicked parents," said Vinet Dubey, a lawyer in Los Angeles, said in A declaration.
Happy family organizationcomplaints On his website that his products are "safe for babies and toddlers to enjoy". By the Society:
We only sell products that have been rigorously tested and we do not have products on the market with contaminating ranges outside the boundaries set by the FDA. We are proud to be at the forefront of implementing strict quality standards to provide nutritional offers for families. The safety, health and well-being of our little ones are, and has always been an intrinsic part of our DNA.
But there is no federal lead standard in baby foods, the prosecution against society emphasizes.The Washington Post reported In April, "there is a growing consensus among health experts that lead levels in baby foods should not exceed 1 ppb". At the time, American food and drugsannouncement A multiannual plan aimed at reducing exposure to toxic elements in foods commonly consumed by children, which includes the compliance of the monitoring manufacturer.
AnotherThe baby food product has recently been drawn from store shelves store due to high arsenic levels. The beech-walnut stage 1, single grain rice cereals tested above the natural arsenic level defined by the FDA in August 2020.
"Nurture, Inc. states the quality and safety of all its products," said a spokesman for the companyEat this, not that!. "Although we did not start waiting for litigation, we intend to vigorously defend this case."
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