(Not a happy ending)
Companies using smelters had a toxic waste problem. And because of a loophole they put heavy metals in the crop fields as bulk amendment instead of paying for waste remediation and containment. Those crops concentrated heavy metals, and were distributed among the fields across a vast stretch of country. The EU and Canada banned the activity but America continued to plant and harvest and allow the contaminated food to enter the commodity supply chain. This practice continued for a period of approximately 20-30 years.
Yesterday, scientists examined the baby food products from several large corporations they found levels of lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury at levels orders of magnitude, in some case, above levels considered safe.
>Last year, the Trump administration ignored new information contained in a secret industry presentation to federal regulators about toxic heavy metals in baby foods. On August 1, 2019, FDA received a secret slide presentation from Hain, the maker of Earth’s Best Organic baby food, which revealed that finished baby food products contain even higher levels of toxic heavy metals than estimates based on individual ingredient test results. One heavy metal in particular, inorganic arsenic, was repeatedly found to be present at 28-93% higher levels than estimated.
The report stated the impact on IQ of Americans using a statistical analysis, titled:
Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury
>For example, a recent study estimates that exposure to environmental chemicals, including lead, are associated with 40,131,518 total IQ points loss in 25.5 million children (or roughly 1.57 lost IQ points per child)—more than the total IQ losses associated with preterm birth (34,031,025), brain tumors (37,288), and traumatic brain injury (5,827,300) combined. For every one IQ point lost, it is estimated that a child’s lifetime earning capacity will be decreased by $18,000.
Companies using smelters had a toxic waste problem. And because of a loophole they put heavy metals in the crop fields as bulk amendment instead of paying for waste remediation and containment. Those crops concentrated heavy metals, and were distributed among the fields across a vast stretch of country. The EU and Canada banned the activity but America continued to plant and harvest and allow the contaminated food to enter the commodity supply chain. This practice continued for a period of approximately 20-30 years.
Yesterday, scientists examined the baby food products from several large corporations they found levels of lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury at levels orders of magnitude, in some case, above levels considered safe.
>Last year, the Trump administration ignored new information contained in a secret industry presentation to federal regulators about toxic heavy metals in baby foods. On August 1, 2019, FDA received a secret slide presentation from Hain, the maker of Earth’s Best Organic baby food, which revealed that finished baby food products contain even higher levels of toxic heavy metals than estimates based on individual ingredient test results. One heavy metal in particular, inorganic arsenic, was repeatedly found to be present at 28-93% higher levels than estimated.
The report stated the impact on IQ of Americans using a statistical analysis, titled:
Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury
>For example, a recent study estimates that exposure to environmental chemicals, including lead, are associated with 40,131,518 total IQ points loss in 25.5 million children (or roughly 1.57 lost IQ points per child)—more than the total IQ losses associated with preterm birth (34,031,025), brain tumors (37,288), and traumatic brain injury (5,827,300) combined. For every one IQ point lost, it is estimated that a child’s lifetime earning capacity will be decreased by $18,000.
