In the U.S., autism is escalating at a faster pace than anywhere else in the world – 1/44 diagnosed here compared with 1/100 worldwide, a 178 percent increase since 2000. A 2021 study by the NIH (National Institutes of Health), “suggests heavy metals are known to be harmful for neurodevelopment.”2 The NIH findings provide “additional evidence to existing literature regarding the potential role of toxic metals in children’s behavior.”
Consumer Reports Food Safety Division (CR) also conducted an analysis of 50 random, nationally distributed packaged foods for babies and toddlers, updated last September, which found that products higher in rice content were most problematic since rice contains higher levels of inorganic arsenic, as well as cadmium and lead. CR chemists, led by Tunde Akinleye, determined that heavy metals in combination are more adverse to neurobehavioral development.
Meanwhile, the uninterrupted sale of U.S. infant nutrition products containing dozens of times the 2016 safety recommendations isn’t getting much attention, nor are manufacturers rushing to make products any safer. Why? Because the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) isn’t enforcing tighter regulations; it only keeps promising to enforce tighter regulations.