Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking Gerber and Nestle USA to court over the assurances parents received about baby food, alleging the companies promoted its safety despite internal results showing arsenic and lead.
Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, announced the civil lawsuit Oct. 14. Filed five days earlier in Collin County, it challenges the companies’ marketing under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
State points to ingredient testing
The petition cites testing from 2017 through 2019, alleging Gerber used 67 rice-flour batches with inorganic arsenic above 90 parts per billion.
It also lists lead concentrations reaching 48 parts per billion in sweet potatoes and cadmium reaching 87 parts per billion in carrots…