Heavy Metal Baby Food

Consider Michael Olson’s Second Law of the Food Chain: The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what’s in our food.

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Heavy Metal Baby Food

When it comes to feeding our babies, we the people have traveled a long way from the source of our food.  Where we once fed our babies fresh foods from our farms, we now feed them foods from commercial packages that come from thousands of miles away.  As a consequence of that distance, we have lost a lot of control over what we feed our babies.

Case in point, a 2021 House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy report revealed that a number of leading baby food manufacturers knowingly sold products that contained dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury. 

Fearful of the impact the toxic heavy metals might be having on the brains of their babies, parents throughout the United States rose up and took the manufactures to court. 

Consequent to the release of the Subcommittee’s study, and the parents’ lawsuits, the U.S. Food and Drug administration developed an action plan it called “Closer to Zero” to reduce the amount of toxic heavy metals in baby foods.  Though the Feds have been making making progress, some say not enough progress has been made, and the progress that has been made takes too much time to make.

Enter attorney groups like Wisner Baum LLP to apply the red-hot poker of litigation to help big government and big food get things moving to the promised land of “Closer to Zero.”          

Their red-hot poker leads us to ask: Should grocers be allowed to sell baby foods that contain toxic heavy metals?

Tune in here, for the syndicated Michael Olson Food Chain Radio Show #1403 November 8, 2025 Saturday 9AM Pacific