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Baby Foods Sold in California Will Have to Adhere to Strict New Rules for Lead and Other Heavy Metals (www.consumerreports.org)
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The nation's first such rule could benefit parents across the country

Starting in 2024, most baby food sold in California will have to be tested for arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury, due to new legislation that was signed into law on Tuesday by California Governor Gavin Newsom.

“This is a big win for parents,” says Brian Ronholm, director of food policy at Consumer Reports. “It will give them vital safety information about the foods they serve their babies.”

read more: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/baby-foods-in-california-must-adhere-to-new-rules-for-lead-a6025175550/

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[–] cmbabul 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How was this not already a thing

[–] pdxfed 11 points 1 year ago

Those poor business psychopaths who can't possibly make baby food without arsenic and still turn a profit.

[–] thantik 7 points 1 year ago

In many places it's still not illegal for a cop to have sex with someone who is in custody...

It's mostly because we have a problem with how laws are written/interpreted/enforced. One wrong word, and a company has a loophole.

[–] Zrybew 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

New law: Baby food can't be poisonous

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

hey, thats like a really good idea. Like so good it should be made into a law or something.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Those goshdarn socialists and their pesky regulashuns!

[–] zloe_zlo 6 points 1 year ago

I am pretty bummed that we need a special law banning that :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So you mean until now it could be full of lead and heavy metals.