Ban Lead in Juice and Fruit Products
- signatures: 9,555
- deadline:
ongoing
- signature goal: 10,000
- Target: Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the U.S. FDA
- Sponsored by: Care2.com
We give our kids juice and fruit
cups because we want them to be healthy. But getting those
5-servings-a-day could also mean getting a serving of hazardous lead.
The Environmental Law Foundation, a nonprofit group, tested dozens of
juice and fruit products and found disturbing levels of lead.
The products were tested at an EPA-certified lab, and the results showed
that many individual servings of apple juice, grape juice, packaged
peaches and pears, and fruit cocktail had lead above the U.S. FDA daily
limit for kids. Take into account the multiple servings kids might
ingest in a day and the fact that lead is especially harmful for
developing bodies, and the news is especially jolting.
Lead can cause physical and mental developmental problems, and many
medical authorities, like the American Academy of Pediatrics, say
there’s NO safe level of lead exposure. Tell the U.S. FDA to ban lead
from juice and fruit products.
Fluoride avoidance reduced anemia in pregnant women, and decreased preterm births, according to a new study.
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