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Baby Food Lawsuit Update 2022

Lawyers from the national law firm of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman represent hundreds of children suffering from autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder after being exposed to dangerously high levels of heavy metals in baby food products.

Our attorneys filed the first baby food lawsuit in California and possibly the nation against several baby food companies alleging they knowingly sell products tainted with arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury. We represent Lorenzo and Melissa Cantabrana, who allege their seven-year-old son, Noah, suffers from neurodevelopmental disorders after consuming substantial quantities of baby foods from the following baby food manufacturers:

Beech-Nut
Gerber
Hain Celestial Group – Earth's Best Organic
Nurture – Happy Family Organics and Happy BABY
Plum Organics
Sprout Foods – Sprout Organic Food
Walmart – Parent's Choice

Baum Hedlund is in active litigation against the baby food companies listed above and intends to go to trial in 2023. To see if your child qualifies for a baby food lawsuit, fill out our confidential case evaluation form or call our legal team at (855) 948-5098 to schedule an appointment with a lawyer who can answer all your questions.

In 2021, a U.S. Congressional Subcommittee reported that numerous popular baby food products, including infant rice cereal, teething biscuits, purees, rice cakes, and others, contain “dangerously high levels” of arsenic, mercury, lead, and cadmium. Shockingly, Happy Family Organics, Gerber, Hain Celestial (Earth’s Best Organic), Beech-Nut, Plum Organics, Walmart (Parent’s Choice), and Sprout Organic Food knowingly sold tainted baby food to unsuspecting parents, according to the report.

Numerous studies have linked toxic heavy metal exposure to behavioral impairments. The link is especially pronounced among babies and young children, whose brains are still developing. Even at low levels, exposure to heavy metals can cause severe and irreversible damage to neurological development in children. As one recent study observed:

“[t]he implications of heavy metals with regards to children’s health have been noted to be more severe compared to adults. The elements’ harmful consequences on children’s health include mental retardation, neurocognitive disorders, behavioral disorders, respiratory problems, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Much attention should be given to heavy metals because of their high toxicity potential, widespread use, and prevalence.”

The Baum Hedlund law firm is filing baby food lawsuits that accuse Gerber, Hain Celestial, Walmart, Plum Organics, and other companies of knowingly selling baby foods with dangerously high levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury. These metals are severe neurotoxins capable of substantially contributing to lifelong brain damage and neurodevelopmental disorders in children.

If your child developed ASD or ADHD after consuming substantial amounts of rice cereal, puffs, purees, or other baby foods from the companies listed above, you may be eligible to pursue justice and compensation in a baby food lawsuit. Filing a legal claim against these companies can help pay for health care costs and expensive therapy sessions associated with your child’s diagnosis.

Join the Baby Food Heavy Metals Lawsuit – Justice for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Injury attorneys from the national law firm of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman are in active litigation against several major baby food companies that knowingly sell products with dangerous amounts of heavy metals. We are outraged by the recklessness these companies demonstrate by continuing to sell tainted foods and intend to hold them accountable in lawsuits.

If you purchased the baby foods from Happy Family Organics, Happy Baby, Gerber, Earth’s Best Organic, Beech-Nut, Plum Organics, Parent’s Choice, Walmart, or Sprout Organic Foods and your child later was later diagnosed with ASD or ADHD, our firm is interested in pursuing justice and maximum compensation on your behalf.

“The level of exposure to heavy metals known to be safe for babies is literally zero. These companies knew their products were toxic and they knew that if they told parents the truth, no one would ever buy tainted baby food. Concealing the known dangers of your products and profiting at the expense of your customers is already reprehensible. When you consider the customers in this case are kids, it doesn’t get much worse than that.” – Attorney Pedram Esfandiary

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Watch “Spotlight on America” interview Baby Food Lawyer Pedram Esfandiary and our client, Melissas Cantabrana, about her family’s lawsuit against Gerber and other companies.

Watch “The Empower Hour” with Noah Cantabrana’s mother, Melissa, her attorney Pedram Esfandiary, and Moms Across America Founder Zen Honeycutt, discuss heavy metals in baby food and the link to autism.

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Baby Food Lawsuit Update 2022

October 17, 2022: Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman baby food lawyers Pedram Esfandiary and R. Brent Wisner will serve as co-lead counsel in the first baby food lawsuit to go to trial on May 2, 2023. Baum Hedlund represents plaintiffs Melissa and Lorenzo Cantabrana in the case of N.C., a minor, v. Hain Celestial Group, Inc. et al., Superior Court for the State of California, County of Los Angeles (Case No. 21STCV22822). This is the first personal injury lawsuit filed related to heavy metals in baby food. It will also be the first baby food lawsuit to proceed to trial.

August 19, 2022: Lawyers filed a Gerber class action lawsuit alleging the brand misbranded over 50 baby and infant foods by including content claims on product labels that are “strictly prohibited” by the FDA. The Gerber class action claims that the company’s “deceptive and unlawful practices in labeling and marketing the Gerber brand baby and toddler food products” misled parents into believing that certain Gerber foods provide health benefits for children under the age of two when the products are actually “harmful both nutritionally and developmentally” for this age demographic. The Gerber products listed in the class action complaint include:

Lil’ Crunchies
Lil’ Snacks
Meal Time for Toddler
Natural for Baby Pouches
Natural for Toddler Pouches
Organic for Baby Pouches
Organic for Toddler Plant-Tastic Pouches
Organic for Toddler Pouches
Snacks for Baby – Wonder Foods
Snacks for Toddler – Grow Strong

If the class action against Gerber is certified, it will include individuals who purchased select Gerber food products between August 18, 2018 and the present.

August 11, 2022: Healthy Babies Bright Futures (HBBF), a consumer advocacy group that helped expose the heavy metals in baby foods issue, has released a new report. HBBF tested 288 baby foods and analyzed more than 7,000 additional food testing data from studies. According to the report, 94% of all foods tested contained detectable amounts of toxic heavy metals.

The HBBF report noted that rice cakes and crisp rice cereal were the most heavily contaminated with arsenic among all foods tested. Per the report, these 10 baby foods are the most contaminated with toxic metals (in order of most contaminated):

Rice Cakes
Crisped Rice Cereal
Rice Puffs
Brown Rice
Rice Teething Biscuits and Rusks
White Rice
Raisins
Teething Crackers (Non-Rice)
Granola Bars with Raisins
Oat-Ring Cereal

These 10 baby foods are the least contaminated with toxic metals (in order of least contaminated):

Bananas
Grits
Branded Meats
Butternut Squash
Lamb
Apples
Pork
Eggs
Oranges
Watermelon

What Are Heavy Metals?

Heavy metals—including lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic—are toxic environmental pollutants that enter our food supply chain via contamination of soil, water, and air; improper waste disposal; chemical fertilizer; pesticides; and the use of other materials.

Heavy metals in foods pose a threat to public health, especially for vulnerable young children because they consume more food in relation to their body weight and absorb metals more readily than adults. According to Linda McCauley, who studies environmental health effects as Dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, “[n]o level of exposure to these metals has been shown to be safe in vulnerable infants.” McCauley adds that exposure from several sources of toxic heavy metals can cause cumulative effects that are particularly dangerous for babies.

Heavy Metals Side Effects

Arsenic: Linked to bladder and lung cancer; damage to the central nervous system, brain development, and cognitive development; immunological effects; IQ deficit (specifically verbal, performance and memory); ASD; decrease in global motor, gross motor, and fine motor.

Cadmium: Linked to decreases in IQ; development of ASD and ADHD.

Lead: Linked to behavioral problems; ASD; decreased cognitive performance; delayed puberty; reduced postnatal growth; damage to central nervous system and brain development; adverse effect on academic achievement; with lower reading and math scores; significant association with ADHD.

Mercury: Linked to adverse subsequent neuro-development; ASD; poorer estimated IQ; positively associated with autistic behaviors among preschool children.

Toxic Heavy Metals Pose a “Major Public Health Concern” for Babies and Children

Public health agencies and medical professional organizations agree that exposure to toxic heavy metals is particularly dangerous for young children:

Heavy metals pose a “major public health concern” for children. --World Health Organization (WHO)

Heavy metals “may build up in biological systems and become a significant health hazard.” Noticeable consequences of exposure could be delayed for years. --Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Arsenic is number one among environmental substances that pose the most significant potential threat to human health, followed by lead (second), mercury (third), and cadmium (seventh). --Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

No level of exposure to these heavy metals has been shown to be safe in children. --American Academy of Pediatrics

US Government Finds “Dangerous Amounts” of Heavy Metals Mercury, Cadmium, Lead, and Arsenic in Baby Food

The U.S. House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy has issued multiple shocking reports on heavy metals in baby food. In February of 2021, the Subcommittee’s report ‘Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury’ detailed staggering levels of toxic metals in baby foods.

According to the February 2021 report, Nurture (Happy Family Organics and HappyBABY), Beech-Nut, Hain Celestial Group (Earth’s Best Organic), Plum Organics, Walmart (Parent’s Choice), Sprout Foods, and Gerber knowingly sell baby foods containing as much as 180 parts per billion (ppb) inorganic arsenic, 6441 ppb lead, 10 ppb mercury, and manufacture their products using ingredients containing as much as 913.4 ppb arsenic, 886.9 ppb lead, and 344.55 ppb cadmium, far eclipsing domestic and international regulatory standards.

To put this in perspective, here are the maximum allowable limits that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set for arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury are:

The FDA allows a maximum level of 5 parts per billion (ppb) lead in bottled water.

The government report found 177 times more than the acceptable level of lead in baby food products.

The FDA allows a maximum level of 10 ppb arsenic in bottled water.

The government report found 91 times more than the acceptable level of arsenic in baby food products.

The FDA allows a maximum level of 5 ppb cadmium in bottled water.

The government report found 69 times more than the acceptable level of cadmium in baby food products.

The EPA allows a maximum of 2 ppb mercury in drinking water.

The government report found 5 times more than the acceptable level of mercury in baby food products.

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Baby Foods High in Heavy Metals

Multiple government reports and testing from consumer advocacy organizations found that the following products and ingredients from Beech-Nut, Earth’s Best Organic, Gerber, Nurture (Happy BABY), Parent’s Choice, Plum Organics, and Sprout Foods contain heavy metals.

Beech-Nut Baby Foods with Heavy Metals

Classics Mixed Vegetables Stage 2
Classics Sweet Carrots
Classics Sweet Potatoes Stage 2
Oatmeal Whole Grain Baby Cereal
Organics Just Carrots
Rice Single Grain Baby Cereal

Beech-Nut Baby Food Ingredients with Heavy Metals

Alpha Amylase (Enzyme)
Amylase (Enzyme)
Apricot
Ascorbic Acid
BAN 800 (Enzyme)
Blueberry
Carrots
Cinnamon
Coarse Oat Flour
Cumin
Dehydrated Potato
Mango
Oat Flour
Oregano
Organic Cinnamon
Organic Coriander
Organic Cumin
Organic Garlic
Organic Lemon
Organic Oat Flour
Organic Pears
Organic Prune
Organic Rice
Organic Rice Flour
Organic Turmeric
Prune
Prune Puree
Quinoa Flour
Rice
Rice Flour
Sebamyl 100 (Enzyme)
Sunflower Lecithin
Sweet Potato
Turmeric
Vitamin Mix

Gerber Baby Foods with Heavy Metals

Arrowroot Biscuits
Barley Single Grain Cereal
Carrot Sitter 2nd Food
Carrot Supported Sitter 1st Goods
Diced Carrots Veggie Pickups
Fruit & Veggie Melts Truly Tropical Blend Free
Multigrain Cereal
Oatmeal Single Grain Cereal
Rice Single Grain Cereal
Sweet Potato Sitter 2nd Foods
Sweet Potato Supported Sitter 1st Foods Tub
Whole Wheat Whole Grain Cereal

Gerber Baby Food Ingredients with Heavy Metals

Conventional Carrots
Conventional Sweet Potatoes
Flour Rice Long Grain
Grape Juice White
Organic Sweet Potatoes

Hain Celestial / Earth’s Best Organic Baby Foods with Heavy Metals

Sensitivity DHR/ARA Infant Formula with Iron
Sesame Street Peanut Butter Baked Corn Puffs
Spinach and Potato Baby Food 6 months
Whole Grain Rice Cereal

Hain Celestial / Earth’s Best Organic Baby Food Ingredients with Heavy Metals

Medium Grain Whole Rice
Organic Barley Flour
Organic Barley Malt Extract
Organic Blueberry Puree
Organic Brown Flax Milled
Organic Brown Rice Flour
Organic Butternut Squash Puree
Organic Cinnamon Powder
Organic Date Paste
Organic Green Lentil Flour
Organic Kamut Flour
Organic Quick Oats
Organic Soft White Wheat Flour
Organic Spelt Flour
Organic Yellow Split Pea Powder
Vitamin Pre-Mix
Whole Raisins

Nurture / Happy Family Organics Baby Foods with Heavy Metals

Apple & Broccoli Puffs
Banana & Pumpkin Puffs
Blueberry Beet Rice Cakes
Kale & Spinach Puffs
Multi-Grain Cereal
Organic Baby Cereal, Clearly Crafted Whole Grains
Organic Oats & Quinoa Baby Cereal Whole Grains with Iron
Organic Rice Cakes Puffed Rice Snack
Organic Simple Combos Apples, Spinach & Kale
Pea Spinach Teether Biscuit
Purple Carrot & Blueberry Puffs
Strawberry & Beet Puffs
Superfood Puffs - Sweet Potato & Carrot Organic Snack
Superfoods Puffs - Apple & Broccoli Organic Snack
Sweet Potato & Carrot Puffs

Plum Organics Baby Foods with Heavy Metals

Grow Well Muscle
Grow Well Tummy
Little Teethers Blueberry
Mighty Morning Bar Blueberry Lemon
Mighty Snack Bars Strawberry
Mighty Sticks Apple Carrot
Super Puffs Apple with Spinach
Super Puffs Blueberry with Purple Sweet Potato
Super Puffs Mango with Sweet Potato
Super Puffs Strawberry with Beet
Teensy Snacks Berry

Sprout Organic Food Baby Foods with Heavy Metals

The U.S. House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy issued a second government report on baby foods in September of 2021. In the report, the Subcommittee noted that Sprout Foods’ practices “appear to be the most reckless among baby foods sellers on the market…The handful of documents that Sprout provided displayed a lax approach to testing for toxic heavy metals in its baby foods.”

Walmart / Parent’s Choice Baby Foods with Heavy Metals

The second government report on baby foods found that Walmart (Parent’s Choice) “does not appear to conduct any testing of its baby food products for toxic heavy metals. Instead, it sets maximum toxic heavy metal levels and asks the manufacturer of Walmart’s private label to self-certify that products meet those levels.”

Other testing has found the following Walmart baby food products contain heavy metals:

Carrot Stage 2, 6 months (Parent's Choice)
Little Hearts Strawberry Yogurt Cereal Snacks Stage 3 (Parent's Choice)
Organic Strawberry Rice Rusks (Parent's Choice)

Baby Food Recall Announcements

Despite being called out in multiple baby food heavy metals reports, Gerber, Plum’s Organic, and other manufacturers have failed to recall products tainted with dangerous amounts of arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury. Below we profile some of the baby food recall announcements since the heavy metals reports from 2021.

Beech Nut Recall

On June 8, 2021, Beech Nut issued a voluntary recall for its infant rice cereal because levels of arsenic in baby food products surpassed the FDA’s maximum allowable limit of 100 part per billion. In addition, Beech Nut announced that it will no longer sell infant rice cereal.

The implicated product in the 2021 Beech Nut recall is the Single Grain Rice Cereal item (UPC 52200034705) which carries the expiration date 01MAY2022 and product codes 103470XXXX and 093470XXXX. The product codes and expiration dates can be found at the bottom of Beech Nut Single Grain Rice Cereal product containers.

According to Happy Babies Bright Futures, this was the first ever recall of infant rice cereal due to high levels of arsenic.

Beech Nut’s baby food recall announcement came just a day after the Attorney General for New Mexico filed a lawsuit against Beech Nut and other companies. Like a previous complaint filed in April by Washington D.C.’s Attorney General Karl Racine, the lawsuit accuses the defendants of marketing and selling baby foods contaminated with high levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury. The lawsuits seek restitution and other legal remedies for failing to warn consumers about the dangerous levels of heavy metals in baby foods.

Walmart Recall

On October 8, 2021, Maple Island, Inc., which manufactures Parent’s Choice Rice Baby Cereal for Walmart, issued a recall on three lots. The Parent’s Choice Rice Baby Cereal 8 oz lots subject to the recall were sold after April 5, 2021. The products listed in the October 2021 Walmart recall include:

Lot 21083 | UPC Code #00681131082907 | Best if Used by Date: JUN 24, 2022

Lot 21084 | UPC Code #00681131082907 | Best if Used by Date: JUN 25, 2022

Lot 21242 | UPC Code #00681131082907 | Best if Used by Date: NOV 30, 2022

Baby Food Lawyer Videos

This video series includes media interviews with Baum Hedlund attorney Pedram Esfandiary, where he provides background on the toxic baby food litigation and answers common questions, including, “What are heavy metals and why are they in baby food?” and “Why are parents filing lawsuits over heavy metals in baby foods?

Can Heavy Metals in Baby Food Cause Neurodevelopmental Disorders?

Yes, according to numerous studies linking heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury to autism and ADHD. Babies and infants are particularly sensitive to arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead in baby food because their brains are still developing. Also, due to their smaller size, more of the heavy metals are absorbed into their bodies compared to adults.

Baby Food Safety Act 2021

The shocking data from the report ‘Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury,’ prompted Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) to introduce a bill called the Baby Food Safety Act of 2021. If passed, the bill would enact sweeping reforms designed to curb the toxic presence of heavy metals in baby foods.

Read Baum Hedlund’s Public Comment to the FDA on Heavy Metals in Baby Food

Is There a Baby Food Class Action Lawsuit?

In the days following the 2021 report, attorneys filed a baby food class action lawsuit against Plum Organics alleging the manufacturer misled consumers by marketing its line of baby food products as “made from the best ingredients.”

Plum Organics was not one of the companies that cooperated with the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy report. Nevertheless, Plum Organics was cited in the 2019 Healthy Babies Bright Futures report, which found many of the same toxic chemicals listed in the House report.

According to the baby food class action against Plum Organics, the company failed to disclose that its food products are at risk of containing “any level of heavy metals or other undesirable toxins or contaminants."

Baby food attorneys from the law firm of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman are not involved in the class action litigation. Our firm is mounting individual baby food lawsuit cases on behalf of parents with children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders.

A Baby Food Attorney Can Help

If your child was harmed by baby food products from Happy Family Organics (including the Happy BABY line), Gerber, Beech-Nut, Earth’s Best Organic, Parent’s Choice, Plum Organics, or Sprout Organic Food, our lawyers are interested in representing you in a baby food heavy metals lawsuit.

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