An apple a day keeps … arsenic in your child’s diet?
Tuesday’s Natural Health: I’m the kind of mom who thinks about every element of my children’s school lunch. Every morning, I make sure I’m sending them off with the healthiest choices (that they’ll actually eat). I felt really good about that — until I read the investigative report in the St. Petersburg Times that shows potentially unsafe levels of arsenic (a dangerous heavy metal) in independently tested apple juices were found in apple juice boxes, including organic apple juice boxes.
Shockingly, the report shows that the highest levels of arsenic ever recorded in the St. Petersburg city water supply is .6 ppb (parts per billion), but in some of the organic apple juice boxes it measured as high as 25 or 26 ppb. That’s the bad news. The good news is the interactive report is easy to read, takes you through all the data step by step on the website and gives you tips so it’s not just another health scare report, but something that we can actually watch out for, make calls to companies and government agencies about and make better daily choices for ourselves and our children after reading.
The days of blindly trusting food sources are over. Articles like this one are the first step in taking back our food supply and making it safe for everyone, especially our children. (photo by Melissa Lyttle, published with article in the St. Petersburg Times/Tampa Bay.com)
