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§ AB 899 PUBLIC DATA · UPDATED 2026-04-26

What's in your baby's food?

California passed a law forcing baby food companies to publish lot-level heavy-metal tests. I scraped over 18,000 of them. Search by brand or product. Sort any column.

≥20 ppb (critical) 10–20 ppb (high) 5–10 ppb (moderate) <5 ppb detected non-detect
Brand Product # lots Pb avg Pb max As max Cd max
What this means → Detectable lead in baby food is mostly from soil and water, not pesticides. Organic doesn't fix it. Brands using whole grains, sweet potato, carrots, and brown rice tend to test higher than refined-ingredient brands. Read the full analysis → · Test your own kitchen with FluoroSpec →
5 worst brands by average lead
Ranked by weighted average lead (ppb) across all tested lots. Brands with more lots get proportionally more weight.
  1. 1 Yumi 42.0 ppb avg  ·  65.8 ppb max  ·  5 products  ·  8 lots
  2. 2 Babylife Organics 11.0 ppb avg  ·  84.0 ppb max  ·  48 products  ·  78 lots
  3. 3 Puffworks 9.5 ppb avg  ·  20.8 ppb max  ·  4 products  ·  66 lots
  4. 4 Amara 8.2 ppb avg  ·  26.0 ppb max  ·  10 products  ·  63 lots
  5. 5 Nestum / Cerelac 6.5 ppb avg  ·  14.0 ppb max  ·  6 products  ·  149 lots
lead database / baby food (48,279 records) →

the unified-database view: 47,802 AB 899 lots plus 477 records from HBBF, NYC, king county, pure earth, and FDA. all categorized, all downloadable.