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 ...

For the first time in history, the US Food and Drug Administration has established guidance for levels of lead in processed baby foods<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

The FDA has set maximum levels for lead in packaged processed foods sold in jars, pouches, tubs or boxes. Here's what to know.

With dazzling success, the Lead Industries Association spent decades pushing the use of poisonous lead pipes and paint.

Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive development of children. Scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution ...

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

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.

The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the ...

But consumer advocates say the Food and Drug Administration's new guidance on lead limit in baby food doesn't go far enough.

Non-government organization EcoWaste Coalition issued a warning on Sunday about the potential health risks of lead exposure ...

Quezon City.  With the onset of 2025, the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition wasted no time in warning the public ...