Toxic Heavy Metals Found in Baby Food Can Lead To
Autism.
If your child consumed baby food and was later diagnosed with autism, contact us for a free case evaluation.
Childhood exposure to
heavy metals can cause damage to neurological
development
Baby food products were produced for infants and children as young as four months old that contained toxic heavy metals. Children are vulnerable to damaging neurological effects from heavy metals, including:
According to both the Food and Drug Administration and World Health Organization, heavy metals are dangerous to health. Even low level exposure to heavy metals in baby food can cause serious and often irreversible damage to the brain development of infants. This can also lead to negative effects on long-term brain function.
Inorganic
arsenic
Lead
Cadmium
Mercury
Investigation by the U.S. House into Baby Food Reveals Toxic Metals
High levels of toxic metals have been found in both conventional and organic baby food products by a U.S. House Subcommittee of Economic and Consumer Policy review of internal documents, and test results from 7 of the largest U.S. baby food manufacturers. These products include:
Internal company documents show the companies allowed dangerously high levels of toxic heavy metals that far exceeded the levels permitted under existing regulations for other products, such as bottled water.
Gerber
Plum Organics (Campbell Soup Company)
HappyBABY (Nurture, Inc.)
Beech-Nut (Beech-Nut Nutrition Company)
Parent’s Choice (Walmart private brand)
Sprout Organic Foods (Sprout Foods, Inc.)
Earth’s Best Organic (Hain Celestial Group)
Food and Drug Administration Confirms Metals in Food are Dangerous to Infants
There is currently no federal standard or warning to consumers about heavy metals found in baby food. Even low levels of these heavy metals can build to a harmful level for infants and children.
We trust manufacturers of baby food to provide safe products for our children.
The lawyers at Wagstaff Law Firm are committed to helping parents and their children hold these companies accountable.
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Inorganic Arsenic
Inorganic arsenic is the #1 environmental substance that poses significant health risks, according to the Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry—ATSDR.
Studies conclude arsenic exposure has a “significant negative impact on neurodevelopment in children” and has been linked to damaging effects on both the central nervous system and cognitive development.
Additional Risks of Exposure Include:
Neurological
Immunological
Hepatic/Liver
Renal/Kidney
Haematlogical/Blood
Respiratory
Gastrointestinal
Cadmium
Cadium is number #7 on the ATDSR list of environmental substances that pose the most significant risks to human health.
It has been linked to:
Development of ADHD
Decrease in IQ, especially in full-scale IQ among boys
Mercury
#3 on ATSDR’s list of environmental substances that pose the most significant effect to human health.
Prenatal exposure to mercury is consistently associated with adverse neurodevelopment and poorer estimated IQ.
Higher levels of exposure have been positively associated with autistic behaviors.
Lead
#2 Environmental substance that pose the most significant threat to human health (ATSDR)
Harmful in even small doses and accumulates in the body
Causes behavioral issues, decreased cognitive performance, delayed puberty, reduced postnatal growth
Especially dangerous to infants and young children
Neurological effects from high lead exposure to lead during early childhood include:
Behavioral difficulties
Learning disabilities
Lowered IQ
