Ban Lead in Juice and Fruit Products
- by: Care2.com
- recipient: Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the U.S. FDA
We give our kids juice and fruit cups because we want them to be healthy. But getting those 5-servings-a-day could also mean getting a serving of hazardous lead.
The Environmental Law Foundation, a nonprofit group, tested dozens of juice and fruit products and found disturbing levels of lead.
The products were tested at an EPA-certified lab, and the results showed that many individual servings of apple juice, grape juice, packaged peaches and pears, and fruit cocktail had lead above the U.S. FDA daily limit for kids. Take into account the multiple servings kids might ingest in a day and the fact that lead is especially harmful for developing bodies, and the news is especially jolting.
Lead can cause physical and mental developmental problems, and many medical authorities, like the American Academy of Pediatrics, say there's NO safe level of lead exposure. Tell the U.S. FDA to ban lead from juice and fruit products.
The Environmental Law Foundation, a California nonprofit group, recently tested dozens of juice and fruit products and found disturbing levels of lead.
The products were tested at an EPA-certified lab, and the results showed that many individual servings of apple juice, grape juice, packaged peaches and pears, and fruit cocktail had lead above the U.S. FDA daily limit for kids. Take into account the multiple servings kids might ingest in a day and the fact that lead is especially harmful for developing bodies, and the news is especially jilting.
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Lead can cause physical and mental developmental problems, and many medical authorities, like the American Academy of Pediatrics, say there's NO safe level of lead exposure. Keep our kids safe: bad lead from juice and fruit products.
