New bill aims to limit harmful heavy metals found in baby food

The fact that there needs to be a bill to stop companies from poisoning babies is just fucking depressing.

Ah, but they didn't even say stop, they said limit...
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- I think 'limit' is fine as long as that limit is under levels safe for infant consumption. It's probably not possible to make baby food entirely free of heavy metals because they're basically everywhere. But it is possible to make them with heavy metals under a specific safety threshold.
What’s more depressing is that there have been 2,291 bills and amendments addressing ingredients in baby food since 1951. They range from limits on toxins to excessive additives and sugars. Most fail at introduction thanks to the lobbying power of Nestlé, who owns Gerber.
Business ethics require legislation in the US.
https://www.congress.gov/search
Hey, if baby consumers didn't want heavy metals in their food they'd chose a competitor - the market has signaled that its in favor of poison. /s
Well tbf have the babies submitted a compelling case through the proper channels? Maybe they can peacefully assemble to make a difference.. that's how christians have won their battles
- Nobody expects the Spanish ~~Inquisition~~ peaceful Christian demonstration!

The free market should be free to choose how much heavy metals are in it.

Baby Formula! Now with 12% less Lead than the leading brand!
- What about that one with 50% more lead, but you don't mind trading a couple of your baby's IQ points for those sweet savings?
Tbh kids these days need to learn a thing or two about heavy metal

limit

Thanks so much.

This is ridiculous! Now how are babies supposed to get their recommended daily value of lead and cadmium?

I don't know, but if you take them to Russia and teach them to say "fuck Putin," they'll get their recommended daily dose of polonium.
I will not let them take my babies daily intake of arsenic and mercury away!
Without led in their system, how are we going to develop the next generation of psychopaths and right wing voters?

TIL in the US they need an extra law to limit harmful substances in (baby) food. Normal people would call this "common sense", but it seems to be rather uncommon in the US.

The FDA was supposed to just be regulating this as their job already. I'm not sure why they need a specific law, but I'm just going to assume the answer is Reagan.
- If the FDA, FTC, USDA, EPA, Depts of Transportation, and CDC wanted to guarantee and check their work, we’d have universal healthcare. And in fact I think that’s exactly the legal argument for why the government should be FORCED to provide us healthcare - how else would we be able to catch (and class action sue for) large community-wide health hazards such as:
  -asbestos in baby powder
  -lead and heavy metals in vitamins and supplements
  -consistency of dosing in medications
  -Deaths from auto accidents when we should be having trains
  -Deaths from contaminated eggs, meat, milk from bird flu or other pathogens
  -Products that are blatant lies/false
  -Companies leaking chemicals into water supplies
  -Lead in water supply
  -Heavy metals in water supply& in crops, from exhaust from cars and bits of tires
  -imminent looming climate change
  Gee, I wonder why corporations are scared of us getting healthcare?