Actualización: Elección de los padres de Walmart retirado del mercado por altos niveles de arsénico en los alimentos para bebés de arroz

A nuevo artículo de Lisa Gill de Consumer Reports estados, "La Administración de Drogas y Alimentos dijo el viernes que el fabricante de alimentos para bebés Maple Island había emitido un retiro voluntario a nivel nacional de tres lotes de su cereal de arroz para bebés Parent's Choice de 8 onzas después de una muestra que se evaluó por encima de la guía de la FDA para el arsénico inorgánico, un carcinógeno conocido. Los productos fueron probados como parte de un programa de muestreo de rutina por la FDA. Ninguna enfermedad ha sido reportada."

Immediate illness is not the only concern; however, long-term brain damage is caused by arsenic in animals and kidney function. Children are especially vulnerable due to their developing bodies.

Este es también el segundo retiro del mercado por parte de un fabricante por niveles elevados de arsénico inorgánico en el cereal de arroz para bebés en menos de seis meses. Beech-Nut emitió un retiro del mercado en junio 2021 y anunció que se retiraba permanentemente del mercado de cereales de arroz para bebés después de que las pruebas de rutina mostraran niveles elevados de arsénico. 

"Hemos llegado a un punto crítico", dice Brian Ronholm, director de política alimentaria de Consumer Reports. "La industria parece ser incapaz de controlar el problema, y el enfoque regulatorio lento de la FDA no está al servicio del interés público".

"Los fabricantes de alimentos para bebés deberían considerar retirar el cereal de arroz para bebés del mercado hasta que puedan implementar medidas de mitigación efectivas para abordar el arsénico inorgánico", dice. "Los padres y cuidadores merecen algo mejor".

Heavy metals in baby food have been a documented problem for several years. Tests in 2018 of 50 nationally distributed baby and toddler foods by Consumer Reports found that two-thirds had worrisome levels of at least one type of heavy metal.

Product recalled: Three lots of 8-ounce packages of Parent's Choice rice baby cereal sold at Walmart after abril 5, 2021. The following product information can be found on the bottom left corner of the back of the package:

• Lot 21083, with UPC Code #00681131082907 and a "best if used by" date of junio 24, 2022

• Lot 21084, with UPC Code #00681131082907 and a "best if used by" date of junio 25, 2022

• Lot 21242, with UPC Code #00681131082907 and a "best if used by" date of noviembre 30, 2022

Recomendamos no comprar NINGÚN producto de arroz para la comida del bebé y preparar su comida para bebés con ingredientes orgánicos. Evite el arroz, los tubérculos y las especias, que tienen un alto contenido de metales pesados. 

We ask everyone to please get in touch with their Senators and Representatives by clicking here. A pre-written email will ask them to pass regulations to protect our babies from heavy metals urgently. If you like, you can Tweet and be automatically connected with your elected official's office as well.

Click here to sign the letter, Tweet, and speak to your elected officials to ask them to vote YES to pass the Baby Food Safety Act of 2021 today.

A continuación, encontrará más detalles sobre el informe original de Consumer Reports del artículo publicado originalmente marzo 29, 2019:

El Congreso publica la nueva ley de seguridad de los alimentos para bebés de 2021 después del informe sobre niveles elevados de contaminación por metales pesados en los alimentos para bebés

Resumen:

• The New Baby Food Safety Act of 2021 has been presented and, if passed, will set heavy metal levels in baby food for the first time.
• Un informe reciente del Congreso muestra que las pruebas internas de cuatro compañías de alimentos para bebés tienen una contaminación de los ingredientes con metales pesados hasta 177 veces más alta que los estándares de la FDA.
• These companies knew the levels far exceeded FDA allowable levels for heavy metals in water and still approved the products for sale to the public.
• Tres empresas de alimentos para bebés no cumplieron y enviaron al Comité del Congreso los datos de las pruebas de metales pesados según lo solicitado.
• Los ingredientes más probados para la contaminación por metales pesados fueron los productos de arroz orgánicos y no orgánicos, las especias y los aditivos.
• Se desconoce el método de entrada de la contaminación por metales pesados. Aún así, los científicos sospechan que los metales pesados son contaminantes de pesticidas en fertilizantes, agua de riego o maquinaria metálica utilizada para moler y procesar alimentos.
• Moms Across America pide a los padres que preparen su comida para bebés y que la FDA exija pruebas de metales pesados (y pesticidas) en todos los productos finales.

En Moms Across America, nos enfocamos en el impacto de la agricultura química industrial en la salud y seguridad de nuestro suministro de alimentos. Un área de impacto es la densidad de nutrientes de los cultivos alimentarios. Los agroquímicos tóxicos pueden reducir la calidad del suelo, la microbiota y la densidad de nutrientes de nuestros alimentos. Hemos estado aprendiendo mucho sobre la agricultura orgánica regenerativa y cómo no utiliza labranza profunda frecuente y, a menudo, puede ser sin labranza (con cultivos de cobertura), lo que significa que el suelo no está alterado y la calidad del suelo mejora con el tiempo. En teoría, aumentaría y mejoraría la densidad de nutrientes del suelo de cultivos cultivados de forma regenerativa y orgánica.

Decidimos hacer algunas pruebas preliminares sobre nutrientes para ver si los seguidores estarían interesados en obtener más información. Nos preguntamos, ¿son los alimentos regenerativos y cultivados orgánicamente más nutritivos que los orgánicos y convencionales? Decidimos ir con comida común, frijoles negros.

Annie macdonald 
Balerno libre de pesticidas 
 
Soy una madre que vive en Balerno, Escocia, al sur de Edimburgo. Sufrí muchas enfermedades hasta los 40 años, lo que significó pasar un año en el hospital cuando era niño y estar tomando varios medicamentos. Los resultados de mis pruebas nunca me dieron ninguna respuesta.
 
Cuando cumplí 40, tomé el control de mi salud. Eliminando los lácteos y el gluten, reduje los productos químicos ambientales y alimentarios particulares (tanto naturales como artificiales). Al volverme principalmente orgánico, recuperé mi salud.

Nosotros, en Moms Across America, hemos tenido SUFICIENTE con lo siguiente:

• Nuestro gobierno permite carcinógenos conocidos y disruptores endocrinos que causan enfermedades hepáticas y renales y debilitan el sistema inmunológico en nuestros alimentos.

• Corporaciones que presionan a nuestro gobierno, escriben "ciencia" e influyen en las políticas para que sean de su interés especial, no de nuestro mejor interés.

• Nuestro gobierno exige procedimientos médicos, descartando toda la experiencia profesional de los médicos y la autonomía corporal personal.

• La EPA permite que los productos químicos sean aprobados con pruebas en solo 1 ingrediente y no en la formulación completa.

• Los miembros de la junta de los CDC pueden tener patentes de vacunas y beneficiarse de las mismas cosas que se supone que deben regular.

• La FDA permite a las corporaciones regular sus propios productos transgénicos y lanzarlos al mercado sin etiqueta.

• La FCC permite la tecnología inalámbrica en las aulas de nuestros niños y las antenas fuera de nuestros hogares que exponen a nuestras familias a radiación dañina sin nuestro consentimiento.

Todas estas cosas están sucediendo con un propósito principal: que las corporaciones ganen más dinero y aumenten su poder.

Children's Health Defense TV se enorgullece de presentar

La hora del empoderamiento

Con Zen Honeycutt

Debuting Friday, septiembre 17, 2021, at 12 noon ET on CHD LIVE.

The Empower Hour is your one-stop weekly news show providing actions and solutions relating to Food, Agriculture, Environmental Toxins, and Children’s Health. Hosted by fierce and unstoppable Zen honeycutt, founding executive director of Moms Across America, y Mothers Across the World, with weekly news by Carol Grieve’ of Integridad alimentaria ahora, and insight from pioneering panelists in the field, every show aims to empower and inspire each one of us to take action to be our Own community leaders and global game-changers.

This week President Biden announced a federal mandate that will require employers with over 100 employees to require their workers to get the COVID vaccine, even though the clinical trials have yet to be completed. We find it outrageous that the members of Congress and their staff are exempt from the mandate while hardworking Americans now face losing their jobs or getting an experimental injection (although the FDA approved one vaccine, the trials will not be completed until between 2022-2024) regardless of their personal decision or individual genetic disposition.

At Moms Across America, most of us have children with chronic health issues. On that journey, many of us have had to go through extensive and expensive genetic testing to sort out the factors contributing to their issues. 

If there is anything that we have learned about health, it is the following:

• Every person has a unique genetic disposition
• Many people, up to 50% (1 in 3 Chinese women, 1 in 4 Caucasians), have gene mutations like the MTHFR genes that can lead to impaired ability to detox toxins. And they cannot afford genetic testing
• The inability to detox toxins such as those found in food, polluted air and water, and vaccines can harm people
• Some of that harm can be lifelong or life-threatening

For these health reasons, and many other moral, religious, and ethical reasons, Moms Across America does not support mandating ANY medical procedure, especially ones that have already been shown to harm over 1.4 million people and are not effective in the transmission or contraction of a disease.

Many are considering a WALK-OUT Wednesday action, and it is important to stick together for personal health freedom.

If you have had enough of the mandates and government intrusion into our health decisions you can join also the #ENOUGH movement to connect with others who feel the same.

We also ask you to consider a WALK-IN.

The CA EPA operates separately from the federal EPA and has long been a leader in somewhat safer environmental policies. On Sept 9, 2021, they are holding a hearing at the Office of Environmental Health Hazards Assessment regarding what the exact wording should be on the label of glyphosate herbicides aka Roundup, Ranger Pro, and 750 other generic brands when used in California. What happens in California affects trade and policy around the world.

Please see below and consider participating. EVERY VOICE MATTERS and you do not have to be an expert. You can simply be someone who suspects glyphosate herbicides affected your health, your family's health, your pet, bees, or marine life near you. The OEHHA office needs to know we citizens are serious about protecting life on the planet and creating healthy communities. Please speak up with us.

We have included our perspective in this article but urge you to use other studies from our data page to touch upon the many other ways glyphosate harms life and therefore should be accurately labeled as such.

Thank you

An Account of Our Research Process and Findings

By Irene Fearnley and the Moms Across America Team

It’s no secret that cooking meals at home are more cost-effective than going out to eat. But what if you want to eat 100% organic, isn't that more expensive? 

In our new research, we show that it is still more cost-effective even if the ingredients are 100% organic. In addition to helping your wallet, cooking meals at home also has the potential for significant health benefits; since you yourself are in control of the products and ingredients you buy, it is easier to make eating organic, non-GMO whole foods a priority. When it comes to eating your meals outside the home, you may be inundated with unhealthy and non-sustainably grown options like the fare offered at fast-food chains. Even at other restaurants, you can never be too sure about the types of ingredients being used and where they are sourced from. To put it plainly, when you decide to cook from home you are making the decision that is truly best for your health and that of your family. 

America has been in a health crisis for over a decade. Heart disease and cancer have each been killing nearly 2000 people a day, long before COVID. At this rate, we are set to bankrupt our nation with health care costs in less than 8 years (unless we keep printing money of course).  Either way, our society is being severely impacted by the cost of health issues.

And yet, the number one disagreement when we at Moms Across America insist that organic, regeneratively grown food is essential for creating healthy communities and local food security, is that it “costs too much.” A common argument of GMO proponents is that educating low income people about the benefits of organic leads to them feeling “embarrassed and ashamed because they cannot afford it.” This implies that our mission for everyone to have access to healthy organic, regeneratively grown food is somehow insensitive and maybe even discriminatory.

When a family member was recently diagnosed with kidney disease, I wondered if the pesticides sprayed in her HOA might have contributed to the illness. When I got the HOA's landscaping records, as you will see in the letter below, I was shocked. I realized that the thousands of gallons of these toxic chemicals, mostly sprayed around the community amenity center where the outdoor pool is located, were likely drifting into the pool. My family member swam in that pool several times a week during warm weather, which in Florida, was often. I believe that outdoor pool water could be a significant source of exposure to toxic landscaping and pest management chemicals, contributing to chronic health issues.

By going through this process I have realized that people all across the nation could benefit if we could test pool water in multiple HOAs for the toxic pesticides that they are using to kill weeds and pests. We could convince the HOA managers and landscaper to switch to safer alternatives (we provide a list of many choices) and we could make a difference in hundreds or thousands of communities being healthier.

It is our fervent hope that you will read the below letter, use a version of it for your HOA ( after you get your HOA records), and partner with us to create healthy communities!