FDA Knows About Toxins in Baby Food But Can’t Fix It (Podcast)

The FDA has known for years that baby food can contain alarming amounts of toxic metals, including lead, arsenic, and cadmium. But why has it been slow to act?

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A team of Bloomberg Law reporters set out to answer this question, and to see how bad the baby food problem really is. For their project, Bloomberg Law independently tested more than two dozen products for contaminants.

Two of those reporters, Gary Harki and Celine ...