Toxic Juice In Stores: High Levels of Heavy Metals Found by Officials!
b'Toxic Metals Found in Popular Store Fruit Juices, Study Says!
Consumer Report (CR), tested 45 popular fruit juices sold across the country\\u2014including apple, grape, pear, and fruit blends\\u2014and found elevated levels of those elements, commonly known as heavy metals, in almost half of them, including juices marketed for children. \\u201cIn some cases, drinking just 4 ounces a day\\u2014or half a cup\\u2014is enough to raise concern,\\u201d says James Dickerson, Ph.D., CR\\u2019s chief scientific officer.
Our test focused on cadmium, lead, mercury, and inorganic arsenic (the type most harmful to health) because they pose some of the greatest risks, and prior research suggests they are common in food and drink.
And Americans, especially the nation\\u2019s children, drink a lot of juice. More than 80 percent of parents of children age 3 and younger give their kids fruit juice at least sometimes, according to a recent national Consumer Reports survey of 3,002 parents. In 74 percent of those cases, kids drink juice once a day or more.
Links:
* https://www.thedailymeal.com/drink/toxic-metals-fruit-juice/020119
* https://www.consumerreports.org/food-safety/arsenic-and-lead-are-in-your-fruit-juice-what-you-need-to-know/
If your household drinks fruit juice, you may want to reconsider which types you\\u2019re buying. Nonprofit ratings and review site, the Consumer Reports Bureau, recently tested 45 fruit juices sold nationwide, and according to the findings, popular brands including Welch\\u2019s, Mott\\u2019s and Minute Maid may contain heavy metals toxic to human health.
Podcast reporter, researcher, editor: Otis Cue Pate
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