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Walmart’s Parent’s Choice baby food poses serious health risks to children due to containing a range of toxic metals, including lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
The nationwide class action lawsuit was filed in California on May 17 by lead Plaintiff Asha Davis, who alleges that the company lies about the products and puts children at risk in the process.
In 2020, Davis bought Walmart’s Parent’s Choice Yogurt Cereal Snacks and Rice Rusks thinking the foods were a natural, healthy snack for her child. However, she later found that both were falsely labelled and contained arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury, the class action lawsuit alleges.
The claim says that Walmart advertises its Parent’s Choice brand as being trusted by parents across the country since 1998 to provide quality, affordable baby products, and adds that the company knows that its advertising is false or misleading.
“Children’s exposure to toxic heavy metals causes permanent decreases in IQ, diminished future economic productivity, and increased risk of future criminal and antisocial behavior,” the class action lawsuit states.
“Babies’ developing brains are ‘exceptionally sensitive to injury caused by toxic chemicals, and several developmental processes have been shown to be highly vulnerable to chemical toxicity’.”
According to the claim, Walmart has shown no concern for the health risks faced by the “vulnerable young children,” adding that instead it continues to sell the products without any indication to consumers that they contain “alarming levels of toxicants.”
According to a recent Congressional Report by the United States House of Representatives Committee on Economic and Consumer Policy, which examined misconduct concerning prominent brands of baby foods, “even low levels of exposure can cause serious and often irreversible damage to brain development.”
The Congressional Report highlighted that Walmart’s Parent’s Choice baby food tested positive for arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury and that the company “refused to produce any documents showing its internal testing policies, its testing results, or how Walmart treats ingredients and/or products that surpass any internal standards.”
“Walmart’s evasion is concerning, as even limited independent testing has revealed the presence of toxic heavy metals in its baby food,” the claim says.
Davis wants to represent a national, multistate, and California Class. She is suing for violations of California state consumer protection statutes, violations of other state consumer protection laws, and unjust enrichment. She seeks restitution, damages, other compensatory relief, injunctive relief, certification of the Class, and a jury trial.
This is the latest class action lawsuit Walmart is facing for its Parent’s Choice baby food. In April, the company was hit with a class action lawsuit for selling the Parent’s Choice brand baby food allegedly knowing it contains toxic substances.
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Davis is represented by Daniel L. Warshaw, Michael H. Pearson, Melissa S. Weiner, and Daniel K. Asiedu of Pearson, Simon & Warshaw, LLP, Rebecca K. Timmons, Levin Papantonio Rafferty, Andrei V. Rado, and Blake Hunter Yagman of Milberg Phillips Grossman LLP, Gregory F. Coleman and Rachel Soffin of Greg Coleman Law P.C. and Daniel K. Bryson and Harper T. Segui of Whitfield Bryson LLP.
The Walmart Toxic Baby Food Class Action Lawsuit is Davis v. Walmart, Inc., Case No. 3:21-cv-03674, in the United States District Court Northern District of California, San Francisco Division.
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