There are no maximum arsenic levels established for baby food, tho the FDA has set the maximum allowable levels in bottled water at 10 ppb of arsenic.
Hain "used many ingredients in its baby foods with as much as 309 ppb of arsenic."
"There is no federal standard for lead in baby food, but there is a growing consensus among health experts that lead levels in baby foods should not exceed 1 ppb."
"Beech-Nut used ingredients containing as much as 886.9 parts per billion of lead" in baby food.
"Gerber, Beech-Nut, HappyBABY + Earth’s Best Organic baby foods complied with the committee’s request to submit internal testing documents."
"Campbell Soup, Walmart + Sprout Foods declined."
So... who knows if *any* baby foods are not hampering devt + lowering IQs. Cool, cool.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is now speaking on the House floor, as the House begins the process for removing her from her committee assignments.
"I"m a very proud wife... I'm a mother of 3 children.... I'm a very regular American."
Greene is now talking about her process of not trusting the news or the government, so in 2018 "I started looking up things on the Internet" and learned about conspiracy theories like QAnon.
"That is absolutely what I regret," Greene says of embracing conspiracy theories.
"If it weren't for the Facebook posts I 'liked' in 2018, I wouldn't be standing here today and you couldn't accuse me of anything wrong."
A weird thing happening in the Senate right now is that it still has not passed its organizing resolution -- which sets up committee chairs/ranking members + the process for moving all bills and nominees to the floor -- and nobody will say why or when it will happen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I asked Schumer about it today at a media avail, after @LACaldwellDC asked about it and didn't get much of an answer, and was promptly brushed off.
Why?
JUST NOW: Schumer says the Senate's organizing resolution has been finalized and will be passed today.
What's interesting about House GOP Whip Steve Scalise accusing Biden of abandoning bipartisanship as he moves forward with his agenda is that there was a Capitol insurrection a few weeks ago and a few hours after it Steve Scalise still voted to overturn the election.
Has Steve Scalise forgotten about this already?
That time when he and 146 other Republicans voted to overturn the election based on the same lies that fueled a pro-Trump mob to attack the Capitol and search for lawmakers to kill to stop them from certifying Biden's win?
Yeah, that happened. Remember that?
Remember how 5 people died? And then 2 officers who defended the Capitol that day died by suicide?
Here are the names of all 147 of those Republicans who voted to overturn the election , even *after* the insurrection. huffpost.com/entry/republic…
I'm gonna stop tweeting updates on this because the #s keeps changing, but since this story pubbed last Thursday, 6 more federal judges have announced retirement plans, meaning they hung so Biden could pick their replacements, not Trump. huffpost.com/entry/federal-…
Of the 6 federal judges who have announced retirement plans since last Thursday:
4 are Obama appointments
1 is a GWB appointment
1 is a Clinton appointment
Biden currently has 49 vacancies to fill on U.S. district courts and 4 vacancies to fill on U.S. appeals courts.
But court seats are opening up fairly rapidly right now, here on Day 12 of Biden's presidency.