Arsenic in Kids' Juice Boxes - Apple & Eve, Motts, Welch's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'd also like to get away from the sniping, and ask, what about school? I don't buy juice for home, but my daughter gets one or two juice boxes (Apple & Eve (Fruitables?) 100% juice) every day at school.

I'm in the same boat. We never do juice at home, but DD gs juice at preschool almost every other day. I hate this, but I would also hate to be known as the "pain in the butt, anti-juice fanatic". I wiseth there was a way to approach this with the schools!

Seriously? You don't care about your kids eat so you can be seen as "cool"?
This is not highschool, ladies...

[Anonymous]

I find it Ironic that everyone wants to keep the FDA where as a PRIVATE company found the high levels. FDA is refuting it but it seems time after time a PRIVATE company is doing better work than the government agencies. Consumer reports seems to always report better than the FEDS.

[Anonymous]

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So what you're saying here is, I'm happy that mothers who give their children juice may accidently be getting them sick..

Karma is a bitch lady.

Oh, and by the way, I'm sure one day you'll accidently get the cyinide in the Tylenol bottle. I'm sure no one will be crying for you. Bitch.

Wow, you sound a little crazy. You're wishing that someone else's kids accidentally gets poisoned with cyanide in a Tylenol bottle? That is evil and disgusting.

You sound incredibly angry. Instead of calling other women 'bitches', try directing your anger elsewhere, where it will be more productive. Write a letter to Motts or Apple and Eve asking them about this and demanding that they make an effort to lower the arsenic levels in their juice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'd also like to get away from the sniping, and ask, what about school? I don't buy juice for home, but my daughter gets one or two juice boxes (Apple & Eve (Fruitables?) 100% juice) every day at school.

I'm in the same boat. We never do juice at home, but DD gs juice at preschool almost every other day. I hate this, but I would also hate to be known as the "pain in the butt, anti-juice fanatic". I wiseth there was a way to approach this with the schools!

Seriously? You don't care about your kids eat so you can be seen as "cool"?
This is not highschool, ladies...

Great, so what do you do about this? Have you tried banning juice in your kids school? Has it been effective? I'm not worried about being seen as 'cool', but how do you go about banning juice? If you have done something that worked at your DC's school, I'd love to know about it.

[Anonymous]

If you look at the actual data, it doesn't really matter the country of origin. Some from China had high levels, some didn't. Some from the USA had high levels, some didn't.

It also tested for organic speciies versus not-organic species of arsonic. Organic would mean from something "normal", like the seeds. Inorganic means from pesticides or other factory waste.

http://www.consumerreports.org/content/dam/cro/magazine-articles/January%202012/Consumer%20Reports%20Arsenic%20Test%20Results%20January%202012.pdf?EXTKEY=AYAHLTH04

[Anonymous]

A tangent:
apple seeds contain cyanide.. which our body can process in small doses, I read.. Is the same true of arsenic, at least as it appears naturally, if it does? I can imagine that naturally occurring "poisons" can be good for us in small doses (in a homeopathic sort of way)

Like bella donna, which is used in homeopathic medicine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'd also like to get away from the sniping, and ask, what about school? I don't buy juice for home, but my daughter gets one or two juice boxes (Apple & Eve (Fruitables?) 100% juice) every day at school.

I'm in the same boat. We never do juice at home, but DD gs juice at preschool almost every other day. I hate this, but I would also hate to be known as the "pain in the butt, anti-juice fanatic". I wiseth there was a way to approach this with the schools!

Seriously? You don't care about your kids eat so you can be seen as "cool"?
This is not highschool, ladies...

Great, so what do you do about this? Have you tried banning juice in your kids school? Has it been effective? I'm not worried about being seen as 'cool', but how do you go about banning juice? If you have done something that worked at your DC's school, I'd love to know about it.

Not the PP, but I have tried to get the menu changed at my child's preschool, along with several other parents. We formed a committee, gathered input from multiple parents, suggested changes to the menu... Got nowhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: A tangent:
apple seeds contain cyanide.. which our body can process in small doses, I read.. Is the same true of arsenic, at least as it appears naturally, if it does? I can imagine that naturally occurring "poisons" can be good for us in small doses (in a homeopathic sort of way)

Like bella donna, which is used in homeopathic medicine

If you read the report, you would see it differentiated between arsenic from organic sources and arsenice from non-organic sources. Most of them had high levels of non-organic arsenic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Great, so what do you do about this? Have you tried banning juice in your kids school? Has it been effective? I'm not worried about being seen as 'cool', but how do you go about banning juice? If you have done something that worked at your DC's school, I'd love to know about it.

Not the PP, but I have tried to get the menu changed at my child's preschool, along with several other parents. We formed a committee, gathered input from multiple parents, suggested changes to the menu... Got nowhere.

That is so disheartening. And, this was at a preschool. What about a huge county school system, like Montgomery County.

I'm not sure why there isn't more of a push for good nutrition in schools. It is so important, and obviously impacts learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it Ironic that everyone wants to keep the FDA where as a PRIVATE company found the high levels. FDA is refuting it but it seems time after time a PRIVATE company is doing better work than the government agencies. Consumer reports seems to always report better than the FEDS.

Perhaps because the missions of the FDA and Consumer Reports are totally different?

[Anonymous]

I would never buy food from china!! GROSS!!

[Anonymous]

Did you guys see that there is arsenic in rice cereal? INFANT RICE CEREAL? And that US rice has the highest arsenic levels in the world? It's all in the article. there was also lead found in juice and other foods that infants eat.

PEOPLE, this is why we need STRONG environmental and food regulations! DO NOT LET THOSE Republicans convince you we do not need the EPA, and govt regulations. WIthout regulations the big corporations would have us all poisoned to death with pesticides, herbicides, chemicals and environmental toxins in 50 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you guys see that there is arsenic in rice cereal? INFANT RICE CEREAL? And that US rice has the highest arsenic levels in the world? It's all in the article. there was also lead found in juice and other foods that infants eat.

PEOPLE, this is why we need STRONG environmental and food regulations! DO NOT LET THOSE Republicans convince you we do not need the EPA, and govt regulations. WIthout regulations the big corporations would have us all poisoned to death with pesticides, herbicides, chemicals and environmental toxins in 50 years.

I saw that about the rice cereal. Isn't that insane?

I'm not sure that I agree with you on the second part though. It was the FDA that was actually downplaying the concerns about arsenic. I don't completely have faith in the FDA. Yes, we need government regulations, but it was Consumer Reports who actually brought this issue to the forefront. Why is the FDA allowing these companies to sell arsenic-laced juice?? It doesn't give me much faith in them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, scary! And stupid me, I had no idea that most concentrate came from China. Gheez, what should we give the boy (he's 12) to drink?

How about water. Gheez.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad we waited to start juice.

Ditto. People are surprised that DC (almost 14 mo) has never had juice. He loves water, so why would I give him empty calories + sugar?

Same here, mine is 15 months. I also have a 6 yo and we do not do juice boxes at all. We also try to buy organic as much as possible.