The Food and Drug Administration urged food manufacturers last week to significantly reduce the amount of lead in processed ...

The allowable levels of lead in certain baby and toddler foods should be set at 20 parts per billion or less, according to ...

Baby food manufacturers will likely need to comply soon with the new FDA levels. Nearly one year after two congressional ...

FDA analysis of routine baby food sampling between 2008 and 2021 found an average lead concentration of less than 10 parts ...

These draft action levels support the agency’s broader effort to reduce exposure to arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury from foods, and advance the FDA’s goals in the Closer to Zero action plan that ...

By Christina Jewett The Food and Drug Administration’s new plan to keep high levels of lead out of baby foods like mashed sweet potatoes, apple sauce and dry cereal is part of a larger effort to ...

In the Food and Drug Administration's first steps toward expanding its oversight over commercial baby food, the agency on ...

Draft guidelines released by the agency on Tuesday outline a new maximum amount of lead that should be found in baby food.

The FDA is asking baby food manufacturers to reduce the amount of lead in products by 25%. Lead affects brain development in ...

Rice cereal, formula, purees and puffs. They're among the most popular products purchased from the baby food aisle. And they ...

The Food and Drug Administration is weighing in on allowable amounts of lead in baby food. According to new draft guidance by ...