Chemical Free Life
A new report * from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed the agency found significant levels of toxic heavy metals in the U.S. food supply. The FDA found lead in 15% of food samples, arsenic in 43% and cadmium in 61%.
Baby foods were among the most contaminated for arsenic and lead. The FDA analysis also found that out of 384 baby food samples collected, 51% had detectable levels of total arsenic. The highest levels of arsenic were found in infant cereals and items like teething biscuits and puffed snacks. Additionally, the FDA found 65% of the samples contained cadmium, 21% contained lead and 3% contained mercury. Toxic heavy metals endanger infants’ neurological development and long-term brain functioning.
Overall U.S. Food Supply containing toxic heavy metals
ARSENIC: The foods with the highest arsenic concentrations were seafood, including baked cod, canned tuna and fish sticks.
LEAD: According to the new FDA report, the highest lead concentrations were in baking powder, cocoa powder, baby food sweet potatoes, baby food teething biscuits and sandwich cookies. Products like ranch salad dressing, white wine and sweet potato based baby foods were all found to contain lead.
URANIUM: Uranium was detected in American cheese and chocolate chip cookies. These two snacks are commonly consumed by children.
CADMIUM: The foods with the highest cadmium concentrations were sunflower seeds and spinach. While cadmium was detected in most vegetable samples, many concentrations were low.
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The Germans developed the term “statistics” to describe data generated for informing the State (note the root word). Statistics are easily used for propaganda purposes because they can sound very frightening, such as “Covid cases are up 100%,” without the knowledge of the underlying data that previously there were 0 cases and today there is 1. It’s all a matter of degree.
If you read the actual FDA report, you will discover that almost all of the food sampled had no trace of toxins. Further, the amounts detected were below (often well below) the threshold of concern. The report offers informative discussion of how these toxins occur naturally in soils and are absorbed by plant roots.
We all desire for our foods to be safe for human consumption, but achieving “chemical free” foods may be as unrealistic and unhealthy as Net Zero Carbon Emissions.