The Baby Food Safety Act of 2023 would require the Food and Drug Administration to establish legal limits on toxic elements including lead, cadmium, mercury, and inorganic arsenic in infant and toddler foods and infant formula. The bill gives the FDA authority to set additional limits on other toxic elements if warranted by health data. Baby food manufacturers would need to comply with these limits, and any products exceeding the established thresholds would be considered unsafe and subject to mandatory recall. The FDA must propose limits for lead, arsenic, and cadmium by December 2025 with final rules by June 2027, while mercury limits would follow a later timeline with a final rule by October 2030. The bill requires the FDA to base its standards on scientific evidence and to make the limits as low as reasonably achievable while considering the different types of baby food products.
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