Bifalgorithm post

I have some good news for you this weekend. The FDA just completed their largest and most rigorous study on chemical contaminants and baby food and the results are super positive. Across 16 brands that were tested, the majority of them had undetectable levels of chemical contaminants like heavy metals like cadmium and mercury and 99% of them tested undetectable for pesticides. When there were detectable levels of certain chemical contaminates like arsenic, over 95% of the samples had less than two parts per billion. That is extremely low. That is two times less than what's permissible in our drinking water, according to the EPA. I think for people who are new parents, it's really easy to get caught up in like the fear mongering essence of like wanting to feed your kid the best things you can, but also trying to be realistic and studies like these show that we're definitely on the right track towards keeping food for infants good. Interestingly enough, this test also included a limiting test around where they tested a few samples of human milk and they found that there were also a lot of these contaminants present in them. 85% of human milk samples did have detectable contaminants. And that's not to say that you should be scared of that. These results cannot be generalized, especially when we measured human milk. But the nuance of heavy metals in particular, so lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic, is that these are simultaneously man-made contaminants as well as things that are naturally present in our soil and in our environment because they're present in the Earth's crust. I'm glad to have something like the FDA that does rigorous testing on infant formula just because we all want to have a safe food world, I guess.

I have some good news for you this weekend. The FDA just completed their largest and most rigorous study on chemical contaminants and baby food and the results…