FDA: Survey Data on Lead in Women's and Children's Vitamins

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You can run a search on this page to see if your vitamin is on the list.

FDA:  Survey Data on Lead in Women's and Children's Vitamins
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/pbvitami.html
CFSAN/Office of Regulatory Science
August 2008

I was surprised to see that the Rainbow Light Complete System Prenatal is higher than most tested.  The Rainbow Light One-a-Day is on the lower end though.

The FDA page says, “Estimates of Pb exposures for all products were below the PTTI levels for the at-risk population groups of children, pregnant and lactating women and adult women.”  (provisional total tolerable intake levels (PTTI)2.)

I found this blog post that explains more and shows you the ones with least amount of exposure and greatest amount - http://nestbyswanky.com/blog/?m=20080829

“Although the FDA is not taking a position on whether the levels of lead in these vitamins poses a health hazard, leaders on the issue in public policy have consistently told consumers that there is “no known safe level of lead exposure,” particularly when the CPSC has ordering mass recalls of children’s jewelry in recent years.”

And this article too - http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/lead-vitamins-082803