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THE 25-YEAR PROBLEM
Cadmium in baby food.
Lead gets the headlines. Cadmium gets the kidney damage. Sweet potato, carrots, leafy greens, and rice all draw cadmium from soil and concentrate it in the parts of the plant that go into baby food.
01
Why cadmium gets ignored.
Lead poisoning has a sharp dose-response and a familiar story. Cadmium accumulates silently for decades and damages the kidneys, the bones, and the reproductive system. The FDA does not have an interim reference level for cadmium in food the way it does for lead.
The crops that concentrate cadmium.
Sweet potato. Carrots. Spinach and other leafy greens. Brown rice. Sunflower seeds. Cacao. These are not bad foods. They are foods that need source-tested.
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The pattern.
47,802
AB 899 lot results
4
datasets agree
~30%
lots over EFSA cadmium ceiling
03
What to do.
01
Rotate the high-accumulator crops.
Sweet potato 1-2x a week, not every day.
02
Lean on whey-based formula + lower-load grains.
Oats, quinoa, and barley test much lower than brown rice.
03
Pick brands that disclose under the EFSA ceiling.
The AB 899 lookup shows cadmium alongside lead.