The agency issued final guidance that it estimated could reduce lead exposure from processed baby foods by about 20% to 30%. The limits are voluntary, not mandatory, for food manufacturers, but they ...

Final guidance from FDA affirms previously proposed caps for lead in packaged baby and toddler food that public health advocates complained did not go far enough – spurring calls for state action.

New research finds that pollution from ancient silver and lead mining during the Roman Empire resulted in lowered ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration set the first federal voluntary limits for how much lead should be allowed in ...

Ordinarily, the large deposits of lead in Enyigba community in Abakaliki Local Government Area and Ameka community in Ezza ...

The researchers first took measurements of lead deposited in three Arctic ice cores every year between 500 BCE and 600 CE using techniques they have reported before. They found that lead emissions ...

The FDA's new standards for toxic lead target processed baby foods such as jarred fruits, vegetables, yogurts and dry cereals.

For the first time, the US Food and Drug Administration has set a limit on the amount of lead that can be in baby foods, but ...

Lead and other toxic heavy metals have been found in dangerously elevated amounts in some commercial baby foods sold in the ...