Letter to Governor Youngkin requesting a signature for the Baby Food Protection Act (HB1844)

The Center for Science in the Public Interest strongly urges Governor Youngkin to support the Baby Food Protection Act (HB1844), a critical measure to protect infants and young children from toxic heavy metals in baby food. Even low levels of lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury can cause serious, often irreversible brain damage in babies and children, who are particularly vulnerable to neurotoxic effects. By enacting HB1844, Virginia can join states like California and Maryland in taking decisive action to protect its youngest residents. View the resource below to keep reading.

RE: Action Levels for Lead in Food Intended for Babies and Young Children: Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability

CSPI respectfully submits these final comments on lead in food intended for babies and young children to the docket (Docket No. FDA-2022-D-0278) (the Draft Baby Food Guidance). CSPI supports efforts by the FDA to reduce children’s dietary exposure to lead.

FDA issues final guidance for lead action levels in baby food

Food and health news you may have missed: Oct. 13, 2023

California’s new food safety laws, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and more food, health, and nutrition news you may have missed.

Infant formula, baby food could soon be safer

CSPI Letter to Gavin Newsom RE: AB 418 & AB 899 Signature Request

The California Food Safety Act, AB 418, prohibits companies from adding to food four chemicals that are linked to cancer, reproductive harm, and other serious adverse health effects. AB 899 mandates that baby food manufacturers who sell or distribute their products in California routinely test their products for lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury—toxic elements that cause permanent brain damage, cancer, and other serious harm—and make the results of those tests available to the state and the public.

The causes and effects of the recent powdered infant formula shortage

CSPI urges policymakers in Washington to deploy additional tools to address the infant formula crisis

CSPI calls on the White House and policymakers at FDA and in Congress to use all the tools at their disposal to address the immediate crisis.

CSPI calls on Abbott and FDA to clarify the scope of the infant formula recall

Abbott and the Food and Drug Administration should clarify which infant formula products are part of a recall from Abbott’s Sturgis, Michigan facility, which is being investigated after five infant illnesses and two deaths that may have been caused by Cronobacter infection from contaminated formula.

Plum Organics, Gerber accused of bait-and-switch schemes on baby food labels