New bill aims to limit harmful heavy metals found in baby food
New bill aims to limit harmful heavy metals found in baby food
US lawmakers plan to introduce a bill Thursday that aims to limit the amount of heavy metals found in baby food through stronger regulation and enforcement by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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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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.
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
Inquisitionpeaceful Christian demonstration!
The free market should be free to choose how much heavy metals are in it.
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?
When CEOs of these companies go to prison it will stop.
Prison doesn't stop them. They'll just sacrifice a scape goat and apply a new guy.
Have we tried sending them to prison though?
I am genuinely surprised that this isn't already in place for all foods. We've known about the harm they cause for a very long time.
Well, there is a simple reason for that
It's called money
Was it introduced by Biden? If so, it's dead on arrival as conservatives will do anything to prevent him from getting a win.
Klobuchar, Krishnamoorthi, Duckworth, and Cárdenas. All Democratic senators.
It was originally put forth by Krishnamoorthi late last year.
Limit implies they will still have some allowable amount which is insane!
Nestle:
opens jar of Gerber
Led Zeppelin starts playing from the jar
I feed our baby junks of lead to go straight to the source. It’s working well.
Great. What are we going to do with them now?