Three lots of "Parent's Choice" cereal have been recalled after routine testing found high levels of inorganic arsenic, which can affect dev
Then, late last month, the same subcommittee said the baby food companies haven't sufficiently changed their ways, and the FDA isn't acting fast enough to encourage them to. Walmart in particular was called out for weakening its internal arsenic standard n 2018, "an extreme course reversal on efforts to protect babies' neurological development," the subcommittee said.
"Why is there arsenic in baby food?" is a very visceral question. The obvious answer is ground pollution where rice is grown, but the next two questions are "Why haven't we cleaned up the ground where one of the world's most popular staple crop is grown?" and "Why don't we have stricter controls to make sure arsenic doesn't get in baby food?"
