Arsenic and other toxic metals found in baby foods

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Arsenic and toxic metals found in baby foods.

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Baby foods used to wean infants off milk have been found to

contain " alarming " levels of toxic contaminants including arsenic,

lead and cadmium.

The findings come as officials at the Food Standards Agency and

the European Commission are conducting an urgent review to

establish new limits for the long term exposure of these

contaminants in food.

The products tested by the researchers were made by major baby

food manufacturers including Organix, Hipp, Nestle and Holle -

some of which are available in British supermarkets.

Researchers found feeding infants twice a day on the shop-bought

baby foods such as rice porridge can increase their exposure to

arsenic by up to fifty times when compared to breast feeding alone.

Exposure to other toxic metals such as cadmium, which is known to

cause neurological and kidney damage, increased by up to 150 times

in some of the foods tested by Swedish scientists, while lead

increased by up to eight times....

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London Daily Telegraph, United Kingdom

High concentrations of essential and toxic elements in infant formula

and infant foods -- A matter of concern

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/Food Chemistry/, /Volume 127, Issue 3/, /1 August 2011/, /Pages 943-951/

Karin Ljung, Brita Palm, Margaretha Grandér, Marie Vahter