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Food & Diet, Heavy metals in what your family eats

The AB 899 reanalysis, the cadmium problem in baby food, mercury in fish, how to think about ppb vs. dose, and what single-sample testing actually tells you.

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AB 899 Baby Food Audit
 Cd
Cadmium Guide
Hg
Mercury Guide
Heavy Metals Guide
Food Audit
Single-Sample Methodology
Food Exposure Calc
Potato Skin vs. Inside
PPB Is Not A Dose
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Food & Diet
  AB 899 Baby Food Audit
18,124 lots, 2,381 failures. Every bit of it public record, organized here.
 Cd  Cadmium Guide
25-year kidney half-life. Root veg, dark chocolate, leafy greens.
Hg  Mercury Guide
Methylmercury, fish sizing, FDA/EPA guidance for pregnancy.
   Heavy Metals Guide
Pb, Cd, Hg, As, what they do and where they enter the diet.
   Food Audit
Spices, snacks, rice, packaged foods ranked by heavy-metal risk.
   Single-Sample Methodology
Why one test can\u2019t condemn a brand (or clear one).
   Food Exposure Calc
Convert ppb + serving size into µg/day dose.
   Potato Skin vs. Inside
Eurofins ICP-MS: skin 11 ppb Pb / 114.9 ppb Cd vs. inside ≤2 ppb Pb.
   PPB Is Not A Dose
Why "100% lead" rankings are meaningless without serving size.
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