Toxic Levels of Arsenic Found in Popular Juice Brands

[ktlight]

FYI:
"In the articles entitled Dumbing Down Society Part I: Foods, Beverages and Meds and Irrational Consumerism (or The Few Companies Who Feed the World), we looked at the many reasons why processed foods should be avoided. Not only does consuming fresh, local foods a strong political move (more productive than occupying anything in my opinion), it is more importantly the best thing you can do for your body and your brain.

Consumer Reports published this week a study revealing that toxic levels of arsenic are found in popular brand fruit juices. An old saying says “for each rat you see, there are 50 you missed” (or something of the sorts). This also probably applies to processed foods. Each time a poisonous substance is found in a food product, there are probably 50 that are not even known or mentioned. So, why not avoiding that crap? Fresh pressed juice is so much better anyway.

Arsenic in your juice. How much is too much? Federal limits don’t exist.

Arsenic has long been recognized as a poison and a contaminant in drinking water, but now concerns are growing about arsenic in foods, especially in fruit juices that are a mainstay for children.

Controversy over arsenic in apple juice made headlines as the school year began when Mehmet Oz, M.D., host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” told viewers that tests he’d commissioned found 10 of three dozen apple-juice samples with total arsenic levels exceeding 10 parts per billion (ppb). There’s no federal arsenic threshold for juice or most foods, though the limit for bottled and public water is 10 ppb. The Food and Drug Administration, trying to reassure consumers about the safety of apple juice, claimed that most arsenic in juices and other foods is of the organic type that is “essentially harmless.”

But an investigation by Consumer Reports shows otherwise. Our study, including tests of apple and grape juice (download a PDF of our complete test results), a scientific analysis of federal health data, a consumer poll, and interviews with doctors and other experts, finds the following:

Roughly 10 percent of our juice samples, from five brands, had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking-water standards. Most of that arsenic was inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen.
One in four samples had lead levels higher than the FDA’s bottled-water limit of 5 ppb. As with arsenic, no federal limit exists for lead in juice.
Apple and grape juice constitute a significant source of dietary exposure to arsenic, according to our analysis of federal health data from 2003 through 2008.
Children drink a lot of juice. Thirty-five percent of children 5 and younger drink juice in quantities exceeding pediatricians’ recommendations, our poll of parents shows.
Mounting scientific evidence suggests that chronic exposure to arsenic and lead even at levels below water standards can result in serious health problems.
Inorganic arsenic has been detected at disturbing levels in other foods, too, which suggests that more must be done to reduce overall dietary exposure.
Our findings have prompted Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, to urge the FDA to set arsenic and lead standards for apple and grape juice. Our scientists believe that juice should at least meet the 5 ppb lead limit for bottled water. They recommend an even lower arsenic limit for juice: 3 ppb.

“People sometimes say, ‘If arsenic exposure is so bad, why don’t you see more people sick or dying from it?’ But the many diseases likely to be increased by exposure even at relatively low levels are so common already that its effects are overlooked simply because no one has looked carefully for the connection,” says Joshua Hamilton, Ph.D., a toxicologist specializing in arsenic research and the chief academic and scientific officer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.

As our investigation found, when scientists and doctors do look, the connections they’ve found underscore the need to protect public health by reducing Americans’ exposure to this potent toxin."

source to read more
http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnew...-juice-brands/

In the same article:
"Other dietary exposures

In addition to juice, foods including chicken, rice, and even baby food have been found to contain arsenic—sometimes at higher levels than the amounts found in juice. Brian Jackson, Ph.D., an analytical chemist and research associate professor at Dartmouth College, presented his findings at a June 2011 scientific conference in Aberdeen, Scotland. He reported finding up to 23 ppb of arsenic in lab tests of name-brand jars of baby food, with inorganic arsenic representing 70 to 90 percent of those total amounts."

[cheez_2806]

great...another food item I enjoy has turned or is found to be poisonous....
exactly where in the world is food safe that is accessible conveniently??

[ktlight]

Posted by cheez_2806 (here)
great...another food item I enjoy has turned or is found to be poisonous....
exactly where in the world is food safe that is accessible conveniently??

Make your own juices. Easy to do.

[cheez_2806]

Posted by ktlight (here)

Posted by cheez_2806 (here)
great...another food item I enjoy has turned or is found to be poisonous....
exactly where in the world is food safe that is accessible conveniently??

Make your own juices. Easy to do.

yeh, but where exactly do the fruits comes from or how they grow it..not sure...grow my own? LOL

[WhiteFeather]

"One day humans will be able to survive on prana alone.....but for now, let's do some breathing exercises"

Who needs food or juice!

Think Different!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DMLFLhw3UGs

[spiritguide]

The question to be answered is where does the arsenic come from? pesticides? packaging? additives? I do know that an organically grown apple does nave natural arsenic in it's seeds as many other fruit. All my life I've eaten the whole apple including seeds and have not built up undue arsenic in my body. A general statement of arsenic in foods and drink is alarming to say the least, but it stops there and does not state the source. The problem is identified now what is the root cause?

Where does inorganic arsenic come from? Surely not mother nature.

[WhiteFeather]

Posted by spiritguide (here)
The question to be answered is where does the arsenic come from? pesticides? packaging? additives? I do know that an organically grown apple does nave natural arsenic in it's seeds as many other fruit. All my life I've eaten the whole apple including seeds and have not built up undue arsenic in my body. A general statement of arsenic in foods and drink is alarming to say the least, but it stops there and does not state the source. The problem is identified now what is the root cause?

A depopulation technique perhaps, from The Dark Side and interconnected with The FDA- Food And Drug Cartel. And I'm almost sure Ole Donnie Rumsfeld has his hands in this baby!