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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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I wonder, Is it similar with our food here in Australia?
To eat very naturally grown food may be beneficial, if you have access to the right kind of soil.! 🙂
How many people would be prepared to totally change their life styles? It looks to me like a big shift in society.
And what about all these ‘underdeveloped’ countries, that we do exploit?
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I suspect the situation in Australia is very similar, Aunty. Most of this contamination stems from industrial contamination, where government agencies fail to regulate industries that contaminate our soil, water and air. The Australian government is far more open about their deregulation agenda (allowing industry to do anything they want) than either the US or the NZ government. In fact they seem to be proud of it: https://deregulation.pmc.gov.au/
As for growing our own food, this is happening big time in NZ’s vaccine choice movement, with many people starting food gardens for the first time. I’ve been part of NZ’s permaculture movement for 20 years, and many of us have a special interest in rebuilding depleted soil that was previously unproductive. With the skyrocketing cost of food, many people have no choice but to grow their own.
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Reblogged this on Calculus of Decay .
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