Lead in juice and kids snacks?
I am so frustrated right now. I have done my absolute best to provide healthy, organic fruits, vegetables, meat (you name it) to my children, and now I get this newsletter from Seventh Generation stating that most of the juice on the market is full of lead! I don’t pour juice down my kids’ throats all day. I even mix it mostly with water; I like to call it “flavored water.” BUT, even so, within a week or so, we go through a container of juice . I am FLOORED upon learning of this new independent study that exposes the pure negligence of the food industry, and their lack of safety regulations. Here’s the scoop:
The lead study is the work of The Environmental Law Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit. The group enlisted a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lab to screen 400 samples from 150 branded products marketed to children, including apple juice, grape juice, packaged pears and peaches (including baby food), and fruit cocktail mixes. The results: 125 out of 146 products tested, or 85 percent, contained alarming amounts of lead.
What? Are you kidding me? Of course, my kids’ juice was on the list. I freaked and went straight to Walmart and informed the manager, stating that I was SURE there would be a recall anytime now. Has there been? Not to my knowledge. All I can hope is that the news will spread fast and consumers will stop purchasing these products. Below I have listed the juices that exceed the safe level of lead per serving, and the list that do not exceed the levels:
Apple Juice
one or more samples exceeded the Prop 65 limit of 0.5 micrograms of lead per serving:
Beech Nut 100% Apple Juice
Earth’s Best Organics Apple JuiceFirst Street 100% Apple Cider from concentrateFirst Street Apple Juice from concentrate 100% juice
Full Circle Organic Apple JuiceGerber 100% Juice Apple Juice
Great Value 100% No Sugar Added Apple Juice
Hansen’s Natural Apple Juice
Kroger 100% Juice Apple Juice
Langers Apple Juice 100% Juice
Minute Maid Juice Apple – 100% Apple Juice
Motts 100% Apple Juice
O Organics Organic Unfiltered Apple Juice Not From Concentrate
Old Orchard 100% Apple Juice
Parade 100% Juice Apple
Raley’s Premium 100% Apple Juice not from Concentrate
Safeway 100% Juice Apple Cider
Safeway 100% Juice Apple Juice
Stater Bros. 100% Juice Apple Juice
Sunny Select 100% Apple Juice
Trader Joe’s Certified Organic Apple Juice, pasteurized
Tree Top 100% Juice Apple Cider
Walgreens Apple Juice from concentrate 100% juice
Walnut Grove Market 100% Apple Juice
For the following products, NO samples exceeded the Prop 65 limit of 0.5 micrograms of lead per
Great Value 100% Apple Juice not from concentrate
Harvest Day 100% Apple Juice from ConcentrateKirkland Fresh Pressed Apple Juice Pasteurized
Martinelli’s Gold Medal Apple Juice 100% pure from US grown fresh applesR.W. Knudsen Organic Apple Juice unfiltered
Raley’s Everyday 100% Apple Juice
Sunny Select 100% Unfiltered Apple Juice
Trader Joe’s Fresh Pressed Apple Juice all natural pasteurized, 100% juice
Tree Top 100% Apple Juice
Tree Top Three Apple Blend 100% Fresh Pressed Juice
Grape Juiceone or more samples exceeded the Prop 65 limit of 0.5 micrograms of lead per serving:365 Everyday Value Organic 100% Juice Concord Grapes
First Street Grape Juice from concentrate 100% juiceGerber 100% Juice – White Grape Juice
Great Value 100% Grape JuiceKedem Concord Grape Juice 100% pure grape juice
Kroger Grape Juice 100% Juice
Langers Grape Juice (Concord)
Langers Red Grape Juice
O Organics Organic Grape Juice from concentrate
R.W. Knudsen Just Concord Grape Juice
R.W. Knudsen Organic Just Concord
Raley’s 100% Grape Juice
Safeway 100% Juice Grape Juice
Safeway Organic Grape Juice
Santa Cruz Organic Concord Grape Juice
Stater Bros. 100% Juice Grape Juice
Stater Bros. 100% Juice White Grape Juice
Sunny Select 100% Grape Juice
Trader Joe’s Concord Grape Juice made from fress pressed organic concord grapes
Tree Top 100% Juice, Grape
Valu Time Grape Drink from Concentrate
Walgreens Grape Juice from concentrate 100% juice
Walnut Acres Organic Concord Grape
Walnut Grove Market Grape Juice
Welch’s 100% Grape Juice (from Welch’s Concord Grapes)
Welch’s 100% Red Grape Juice from Concentrate
For the following products, NO samples exceeded the Prop 65 limit of 0.5 micrograms of lead per serving:
Old Orchard Healthy Balance Grape
For the rest of the products, go here: http://www.envirolaw.org/documents/ProductsTestedforLeadFINAL.pdf
Also, to read the newsletter, click here
In my efforts to spread the news, I would appreciate your help!
Thanks!
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Consumers really have to be aware these days. You can’t depend on the FDA or private industry to look out for your kids health.
Just checked and there is no apple juice we use on this list but that’s not to say there isn’t one here in the UK. Thanks for the heads up on this my wife has always diluted the kids juice.
That’s the scary thing; what if your brand of juice wasn’t tested? How do you know if it has lead or not? I am still so angry about these findings…especially when all we hear these days is how autism and ADHD is on the rise. There’s no wonder!