HBBF argue for a lower threshold, and base their assessments of a toxic dose on that figure
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Replying to @GidMK
I should say - there was one product with relatively high levels of arsenic. The point was really that most were probably fine, not that there are no products at all that might need to look at their practices
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Replying to @GidMK
Probably is a very uneasy statement when dealing w babies. I know there is a lot of toxic exposure already in natural environment. Thats its impossible to avoid. However is it possible that the amount of toxicity we introduce to infants purposely in the 1st yr could be dangerous?
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Replying to @LiveIdiotFree
Well, we're talking about very small effects here at the lower levels of exposure. The impact on any one child would be impossible to discern - there ~may~ be a risk at a population level, but that's a more complex issue
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Replying to @GidMK
Population level? So meaning the long term toxicity becoming something that actually has effect on our genes and changes our dna structure generations down the line? Like viruses can do?
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Replying to @LiveIdiotFree
Nope. Meaning the effect on individuals is basically undetectable, you have to look at entire populations to discern an effect. Worst case, individual kids might be losing a fraction of an IQ point if that at low doses
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Replying to @GidMK
Thank you for being honest with me. I really appreciate that.
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Replying to @LiveIdiotFree
Well, I try to never say things that aren't true. Everyone makes mistakes, of course
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Replying to @GidMK
Baby food isn't a big worry for heavy metal contamination tbh. The much bigger issues are to do with old mining areas where dust can be pretty much inescapable and have levels of contamination thousands of times higher than these foods
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Replying to @GidMK
When I was pregnant with my son and his first few years of life I lived very close to a train track and probably the most busy freeway in the country, in SoCal. I'm just thinking that if you combine all the exposure all the sudden its toxic.
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I don't think trains are much of a worry, and freeways are mostly air pollutants rather than heavy metals. More about NOx, but that's a totally different issue
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