Why would there be any kind of metals in foods?

We need the FDA, and it's "experts" to NOT be funded by food and pharma industries.

It would be nice if the FDA protected people not companies.

The fact that any chemicals are allowed to be added to food is a heinous crime.

It’s amazing the amount of products that are banned in other countries but still available in the USA 😢😮

Grocery shopping is an obstacle course these days.

High corn fructose and natural flavors needs to be outlawed!

We need to fire the FDA and hire the real people who care about people. What a evil thing to do to people.

Interesting with the ketchup. I buy Heinz’s Organic ketchup in the US. The ingredient list is very similar to the UK regular Heinz, except the US Organic ketchup specifically lists its organic spices. Just goes to show how in the US you have to buy organic to just be equivalent to other countries regular products.

I swear, every time I think I’m making conscious, healthy improvements in what I eat… I turn around and find out it’s toxic anyway 🙃

If the news spoke the truth like this more often, the companies couldn't get away with poisoning us

Translation: “We at Kerrygold will stop using toxic on butter only because regulators told us to stop but we’ll continue to use toxic stuff on our other popular products because, hey, we’ll seep it secret."

My eldest son was diagnosed with Autism in California when he was very little. He was normal, then all of a sudden he wasn't. He's getting better, especially since I have been changing his diet.

if the healthy foods are toxic imagine how bad the unhealthy ones must be 😳

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️So Done Looking Over My Shoulder About FOOD😤This Country has Become a Major Criminal Against It’s Own People🤬

Whoa. This is scary. I think I’m going to go outside, take a deep breath and have a smoke.

Praying 🙏🏼 over your food and give thanks to our mighty God in the name of Jesus

Never forget Tufts University's school of nutrition claims lucky charms are twice as healthy as boiled eggs. And never forget they refused to answer the question as to who funded their asinine study.

I switched to Kerrygold trying to take better steps for my body and THIS is how they repay us. What a joke

You didn't mention another major difference between the US & UK ketchup. The US version comes in a plastic squeeze bottle. The UK one is glass as the UK banned plastic food containers.

THank you for this. Having previously worked in the government, I would also add this: dear voter, vote and demand better regulations -- do not tolerate deregulating food and agriculture. Did you know that employees of pharma and food-related companies are supposed to wait one year before joining the fed agency that oversaw their industry? The crisis -- this is too often ignored and before the Bush Cheney admin, there was a required 3 year wait. That wait makes it harder for companies to install its company loyalists in federal agencies in order to pass favourable regulations to that company -- or to kill regulations that benefit the average consumer American but at the expense of company profits. Demand that company employees wait 1 year before joining the government and help reduce corruption and save American lives. Yes, your vote and voice really do matter.

No wonder I feel so much better when I don’t eat... There’s poison and chemicals in everything.

Isn't the FDA the same organization who says the MRNA vaccine is also safe??

I live in the South and Kerrygold has been using the cardboard and wax paper packaging for some time here, so it's not just in CA and NY where it's phased out. Also, it's the best tasting butter I've found. As far as fish goes, buy canned salmon instead of canned tuna. Salmon is safe to eat every day and can be prepared in the same ways as canned tuna. People eat way too much canned tuna in the US and tuna is one of the fish that has the highest level of mercury. The higher up the food chain the more mercury, because the fish absorbs mercury from the fish it eats.

Thanks for covering this kind of stuff! its very important we are informed and so many are scared to call out the big brands! Thanks again

Finally! Yes, please let's hold the FDA accountable. Changes need to be made. It's amazing to me what they allow to be put into our food.

Let me add too that I am American and had "heartburn" for over 25 years. I went to Australia in 2016 for 3 weeks and during that time I didn't have heartburn once. I come back to the US and bang, it started up again. I went on a search as to what was causing it and it was likely processed sauces and foods bought on the store shelves. I switched to finding stuff without "corn syrup" and my condition cleared up nearly overnight. Manufacturers are poisoning us slowly and we don't even know it. Shameful.

It really seems like the FDA couldn't care less about the health of its citizens

I used to work in food industry formulating many kinds of foods. What I’d watch out more than natural flavors is the amount of salt and sugar being added to foods. To make products shelf stable, food needs to be either acidic, salty or sweet unless they’re considered canned food. In many cases natural flavors are extractives of spices or blends of seasonings and they’re only added at a tiny amount like below 1%. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

Everytime someone goes after the food companies for using unhealthy ingredients- the companies go to the FDA- and the FDA changes the name and definition of the said ingredient and the beat goes on..

There are a lot of ingredients in our food that are banned in other countries. Even unnecessary sugars are banned.

The difference between European food agencies and US food agencies; Europe requires you prove it’s safe to eat, America requires you prove it is dangerous to get it corrected.

From the comments I learned is that dentists in the UK might use fillings that are 50% mercury, I wonder if the there are some doctors in the US that also do this.

I hate plastic for everything, I'd rather have glass or paper.

Thanks for reporting on these. No wonder Americans have so many health issues.

Yes it is so important to put this kind of information for the public.

Props for a news organization making a block that wasn’t terrible 👍

Bought an organic coffee from Whole Foods last month without reading the label. Got home, read the label and it said contains chemicals that may cause cancer! I returned it the next day. Also bought condensed milk from Costco and I thought I read only “milk and cane sugar”. I have used one can of out 6, and was discussing it with my sister while reading the label I saw “ also contains Bioengineered material”. I was shocked how I missed that and threw the rest away. Please let us always read and pay close attention to the food labels.

We all the People Need to sue the FDA for letting us all get Poisoned!!

Don't eat highly processed, packaged foods, period.

Heinz ketchup used to be Canadian and 100% pure ingredients and then they were bought out by an American company. Now we use Frenchs ketchup is also 100% Canadian Tomato Concentrate (Made from Red Ripe Tomatoes), Sugar, Distilled Vinegar, Salt, Onion Powder, Spices and Natural Flavor.

Kerrygold is getting out in front of this new law... so really that means many more will most likely follow. Other brands have this problem also. How have our food products changed only over the last several decades? Milk used to come in glass, meats and cheeses wrapped in paper only, fruits and veggies sold loose... Plastics are a whole new deal on this planet. Even if they want to claim safety, they have no actual idea (could never actually know) what the long term outcomes are (until they occur). Real time experiments on the planet, human life; models are just models, made by flawed humans however intelligent they are.

Why wouldn't the butter manufacturer NOT change the packaging for EVERYWHERE, not just for those two states!!

Food products here in Europe are very highly regulated, no additional additives allowable unless deemed safe for human consumption, high sugar content is also banned.

Wow! I just bought this butter from a local grocery. PFAS? Its in nearly everything. Sad how even our food is attacking us because of ungodly.

Now THIS is an issue badly in need of a total national overhaul!

I make my own butter....each year my garden gets bigger

My life never began. It's been touched by someone else

What do you do, when you can't trust the food we eat. Asking a serious question. I have ate kerrygold butter cause I love grass-fed. I try to stay away from forever chemicals which is why I only drink filtered water. Now I find out I've been digesting PFAS without my knowledge, how do I trust any food I eat, unless I grow it myself, and butcher my own animals. Why is more not being done, and why now is this coming to the light.

I saw a KZfaq video where the ingredients of Domino's pizza from the US and the UK were listed. There was about 30 ingredients in the US pizza and 11 in the UK pizza. The reason being that a lot of the chemicals in the US version are banned for human consumption by the EU.

Thanks for actually being one of the few putting out truthful news reports

Thank you very much!

So, are the used in all the various non stick coatings such as Hard Anodized and Ceramic?

As a person with Crohn’s, I have to be very care of additives, preservatives and many ingredients in food. Years ago, my inflammation throughout my body was so bad I decided I was going to figure it out. First I stopped eating meat for 2 weeks-noticeable improvement Second-eliminated chips and starch snacks (my faves)-after a month, my so called diagnosed Fibromyalgia disappeared after years of struggles. Then I started identifying many other foods that caused the pain and inflammation. Originally I thought there was no rhyme or reason on what foods bothered me and which didn’t….until I did a deep drive study on ingredients. Our food is killing us and it’s a vicious cycle that no one cares about but the individual. The work I did for myself took a lot of time and education, but has made all the difference in the world in how I feel….until I became a big eater of sweets out of nowhere. That totally threw everything out of whack. Once I got that under control…all good again.

We eat nothing but poison here in the US, we need to grow our own food. My friends overseas are all shocked, they also found out that a lot of these chemicals cause obesity, and chronic inflammation.

are we to abstain from the listed brands completely or just eat less than an ounce of it daily? i'm very torn because i bought some in bulk and now am concerned about how to proceed

U.S.A used to be plenty of food. my parent came from a country where food is not plentiful. any food was good. then later, we know our food is not as healthy as we thought. processed food is the unhealthiest. organic and non organic in reality doesnt really matter. the real difference is that one has more pesticide on it and not really the fertilizer.

PFAS chemicals (it is a group of similar compounds, not just one chemical), due to their water--repelling qualities, are in many, many products that you use every day, and have used for decades. Anything waterproof (clothes, rain gear, plastics, vinyls, umbrellas), non-stick cookware, soaps and detergents, firefighting foam, and anything Teflon, has PFAS/PFOS compounds in it. It is this water-repelling property that makes these compounds so useful---and ubiquitous. Of course there are PFAS in your food: the chemicals are used to prevent your food from sticking to the machinery that makes it, your plastic utensils that you eat with, and your non-stick cookware that you cook with. .These compounds are everywhere. I am in the environmental field, and only now are regulatory gencies starting to look for these groups of chemicals called PFAS/PFOS, and guess what? They're several decades too late. They're everywhere, And due to their structure---they're loaded with fluorine atoms whose chemical bonds with other atoms are extremely strong--these chemicals don't degrade. Yup, we've put our foot in it this time. Enjoy the ride, folks.

Between the food that’s contaminated, the violent video games, Politicians that lack brains, we’re in deep trouble on planet earth

Instead of the attitude of feeding the masses, the food industry needs to adopt the attitude of feeding the health of the people and country.

I've known, for a few years now, that in the U.S. the food we get, is no the food, other countries get. Rice, condiments, soft drinks, etc. So what are we? Lab participants? This is why you see all the drug commercials, targeting certain age groups in the U.S. Shameful.

Kerrygold is my go to butter here in SoCal. Now that you mention it... YEAH, the packaging changed from foil to thick paper for a while now. Never realized it. Thanks CA ! 🙂

My recommendation is to buy organic butter (and other foods) to avoid the chemicals found in foods. I buy Meyenberg goats milk butter. This is made in Germany and Germany has super strict laws about anything NOT organic. The packaging is a waxed box so it is safer packaging. This is sold in my grocery store as well as my health food store.

I always wondered about the packaging.

This is why I've stated growing my food and raising chickens. To add something useful to consumers: ANY food that is oily that is wrapped in paper are coming in contact with PFAS. From Reese's peanut butter cups, to cupcake papers to fast food wrappers and so on. It's used to help keep oil from seeping into the wrapper and making the packaging look greasy. It's all over the place. Paper cups, paper plates, baby diapers et cetera. - it's an endocrine disrupter, this disruption leads to all kinds of other problems like thyroid problems such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

We need to know EXACTLY EVERYTHING that is in our foods!!!

Great I have some kerrygold in my fridge now, should I call Saul?

Thanls so much I never knew about the organic chocolate containing that much cadmium 😊❤

killing us softly

It would be great of the so-called regulatory groups paid for by our tax dollars actually did their job and didn't push pharma and poison. How are we supposed to know what is actually safe when labels and their employees lie for profit

Great job doing REAL NEWS!!THANK YOU!

Thanks for the information. 👍

If you read your labels when you go grocery shopping, you will notice a lot of them have bio engineered food ingredients.

During the first lockdown a bill was passed where they could leave ingredients off the packaging label. Or named 'natural flavors'.

Dang what a nice informative news channel!

You know what’s super hilarious? no one is sharing all the foods that are toxic, it’s through the roof 90%, and no one is doing a thing about it. This is old news and it was supposed to be taking care or. They may have changed the packaging since this was reported.

As a young employee 30 years ago, I was sent to a food manufacturers convention to staff an exhibit booth. I remember seeing one vendor there who proudly sold all these flavorings and had them displayed in huge jars. That's where I learned about "Natural Flavors"... that those words are a copyrighted name of a product, NOT a generic adjective/noun describing a category of non-processed spices. Natural Flavors was the MOST disgusting-looking jar on the table. It was a bright, almost neon orangey-brown color that looked totally fake. I've tried to avoid it ever since, but don't have a whole lot of success.

That's the FDA for you. The food part makes us sick and the drug part treats our sickness, but only just enough not to get us well.

There is naturally metals in foods and much water. Copper, iron etc even in water. Not added. The problem is when it isn't there naturally and it's added.

AHHHH! Now I know why I can’t find my butter at my local grocery store! Thanks for the info!

Please continue this type of reporting! Thank you

It's amazing a lot of these issues have been known about here in the UK for 20+ years.

I wish they would also do a report on floss. I tried looking for the ingredients on floss but I can’t find it on the pkg. there are some w/o pfas but which one??

I love this…a local new organization covering this…thank u

Us has high fructose corn syrup in everything because it's pushed by the government, despite how unhealthy is it for the population! Thank you for this report!

Ractopamine used in hogs for pork in the United States is banned in about 180 countries. In the U. S., China owns the hogs it bans for food in its own country. People in the U. S. eat it all the time. FDA is aware of it, but has no problem helping China market pork in the U. S.

Home-made Ketchup (written on-the-fly, likely needs adjustments): Ensure everything you're going to use in this process is clean and germ/bug-free, following guidelines as outlined by the CDC (it's worth learning those, people)... Basic Ingredients: Peel and de-pulp your tomatoes (set the pulp aside and refrigerate to use for some other recipe), then boil the tomato "meats" in water for at least 3 minutes. Add vinegar, sugar or stevia (find some containing inulin, not dextrose), a small amount of ginger, add any other spices you like, then add some Italian Seasoning and a little salt (go easy on this, not much is needed per serving). Additional ingredients: If you're always using ketchup with relish or pickles, but need a lower sodium diet, then go ahead and add some dill weed, onion powder, and garlic powder (then skip the high sodium relish/pickles in your sandwiches, burgers, and hotdogs). If you always use mustard in these, but want to reduce the sodium more, then add a little mustard seed and a small amount of tumeric (careful, these are messy and they can stain clothing and skin; keep them out of your eyes and nose; wear PPE when handling them, and put down some wax paper on the counter or table where you'll be working). If you're trying to increase the fat in your diet (to lower the carbs), then reduce the water used for boiling and add some almond oil (canola has PFAS in it, sorry folks). If you feel it needs thickening, use FDA and USDA approved tapioca starch (high in nutrients) rather than corn products (but be careful not to over-heat/over-boil, or it becomes stringy and slimy). Cooking/Blending: Allow stove-top mixture to cool (stirring often if using tapioca starch), then blenderize and strain through a wire-mesh strainer, or just pulverize the mixture with an immersion blender (or put it in a VitaMix, etc). You'll want something that's very smooth and will pour from a pouring container. You'll need some kind of container - lots of plastic ones have undeclared PFAS in them. Lead-free glass is best (most metals will just get eaten through by the acidic nature of the vinegar). Use Ball canning jars if necessary, but don't try to store this outside of the refrigerator nor for long periods of time even inside it. Make smaller amounts, one jar at a time, and use up within a few days to prevent spoilage. The vinegar and salt will help it keep, but home-cooking is not without its perils; treat this the same way you would an opened jar of spaghetti sauce. Less is more, in this case. Come up with your own tomato (there are other kinds, too) ketchup recipes! Screw the manufacturers! Their stuff is all garbage anyway, so you're best off making it yourself, following excellent care/cleanliness, preparation, storage, and usage practices, so you know what's in it! Feel free to include corrections in the replies to this comment. I've made ketchup once before, about 15 years ago, but got lazy after that (my bad), so I'm posting this from memory. The Ball Blue Book had a recipe for it back then, so I made my own that way! My comment here is more based on the European Heinz ingredient label in the video, combined with what I remember from that time I made it using Ball's recipe. Why does corn-whatever matter? Why would I suggest stevia (using inulin instead of dextrose) instead of sugar (for those who like the taste of stevia)? Diabetes/pre-diabetes, insulin resistance, PCOS/PCOD, dysmenorrhea, extra-uterin-fibroids (benign), ovarian cysts, full hysterectomies... It starts with the simple-sugars in your diet, they screw with your hormones, and the next thing you know, you're sick from the birth control pills (if female) and you can't have kids (again, if you're female). Aside from the reproductive issues in women, I don't know the non-pancreatic related effects in men, if there are any. Anyway, simple sugars shouldn't "be used in moderation" or even "in small amounts." They shouldn't be used AT ALL. Simple sugars: Most items that are sweet (natural or fake) that you would normally drizzle, pour, or place on pancakes, waffles, or ice cream/cake/pie/cookies. Watch out for natural items with added fake sweetening agents such as dextrose (there are about 20 or so of them, find a list, print it out and keep it in your purse for shopping trips). Inulin is a natural fiber and is considered very healthy though. Honey and agave nectar, and many brands that include stevia (though not all), are not safe with regards to diabetes/pre-diabetes/etc. Sugar itself (in all its forms, and from all plant or other sources). Look this up under "How it's made: sugar" and you'll never want to touch sugar again anyway. Watch out for alternate-names for sugar and simple sugars (there are lists you can look up for those too). The bottom line is, manufacturers are a clusterf^ck, and really, the more you can get away from their garbage, the healthier you're going to be. Mind you, there's PFAS in the water and the rain itself, but some crops are more contaminated than others (there are lists you can look up for those too), and that's a global problem (so it's not "this brand is ok, that one isn't"). Flax, potatoes, rice (all forms, though brown is worse because of PFAS in the hulls), canola oil (but apparently not the other oils, that we know of yet)... Then there's the lead and cadmium in the sunflower seeds/oils/butters... Anyway, thanks to 3M and Dupont, and about 10 other (sorry, I don't know all their names yet) major PFAS-chemical producers/users/dumpers (they dump them in potable water sources and near farmlands, etc), we're all screwed to some degree, and it's a matter of "hit and miss" if you'll have cancer, developmental delays, birth defects, etc etc. Oh, also, PFAS cause chromosomal damage, so it's genuinely best not to reproduce if you can avoid it, at least until you can get tested for chromosomal damage (that testing needs to be freely available to everyone, paid for by those manufacturers who create, use, and/or dump PFAS in unsafe ways, IMHO). PFAS are a global issue, including in areas where there is no manufacturing done at all. They're in the water/rain, the soil, the fish (they go up the food chain), and they are cumulative in the body and do not have short half-lives. They have killed small children clear up through the elderly, and have been linked to Autism, Leukemia, Liver cancer, hormonal disruptions, heart disease, and so on. 99% of Americans have measurable levels of PFAS in our blood, and that's been true for generations now. We're all ticking time-bombs for one problem or another, especially in a country where we are reliant on manufactured products for basically everything we use for survival. The US Government (probably every government) needs to get this all completely cleaned up and then pay us all enough money (it could be earmarked for specific uses) to re-build our lives with safe/clean (dangerous chemical free) products, have safe/clean water to use, and the safe/clean items needed for hydroponic indoor gardens, along with instructions on how to do that successfully. We need easy-to-use online ordering filters for all the major online retailers, to help us locate products that don't contain any amount of PFAS, lead, cadmium, and other harmful chemicals/substances. We need the EPA to finish the job instead of being in bed with Corporate America, and we need food manufacturers to go above and beyond State and Federal regulations, both voluntarily and continually being subjected to multiple 3rd-party/disinterested testing for compliance, both in the food products and their packaging. We need at least phasing-out of all foods and food packaging that contain these harmful chemicals/substances, with a 1:1 ratio of these products being replaced with healthy and safe alternate versions. We need large and small retailers to comply with this - and we need this all to start YESTERDAY. PFAS and other harmful chemicals are the modern Love Canal and the most recent pandemic - they're just not spoken of much, and most people don't know even 10% of what they need to about them. One drop of PFAS in an Olympic sized pool can cause cancer. That's all I need to know; it's all the motivation I need. As I have the money, I'm replacing foods, shampoo/conditioner, mouthwash/toothpaste/dental flossers, antipersperant, feminine hygiene products, toilet paper, makeup, teflon containing products, bug sprays, ScotchGuard.. - anything containing PFAS in particular that touches or goes into my body. I have to do this a little at a time, but I'm getting it done, and that's the point. I've already resigned myself to knowing I will likely die of cancer because of nearly 5 decades of being inundated with PFAS, lead, cadmium, and more. My only hope is that I won't suffer as much on the way down, or that I can stave cancer off for a few extra years. My only salvation would be dying of something else first.

OY VEY!! Do I need to throw my refrigerator away?!!! Because nothing seems to be safe anymore!!!

Brought to you by the same brilliant minds that years ago said eggs would kill you with cholesterol, now… they’re a SUPER FOOD! 😂

It felt weird for me to watch a real news report that wasn't a podcast actually telling the truth about what is in our foods. There is way more than what they could cover to watch out for. Hopefully, this newscast will continue their investigative reporting of what the FDA ignores.

They forgot to mention it is also in your non stick pans. Also in all pans with coatings on them even if they claim the coating contains no pfoas or "non toxic"

Thank you

Now this is real News on extremely important issues concerning a topic that effects us every single day and in every single way!!!

We aren’t behind we are bought out.

Crap, I used Kerrygold's last night for my omlette. Also consume a lot of dark chocolate, although largely from single origin source in Hawaii, so I'm not worried. I highly recommend Manoa chocolate, if you are interested :)

It's in everything. We won't live forever. Does anyone believe we can stop it? Not for many years if we're lucky.

This is very important -- glad to see these issues getting mainstream recognition; here's hoping awareness continues to catch on

The UK has notably fewer chemicals in their food, even the snack foods. Most of the product labels you read from the UK you know exactly what it is and whether it's not good for you. They use sugar in desserts and snacks, while we use corn syrup mostly, but sugar is used extensively as well. Sometimes we use several kinds of sugar in one product. You can order foods from the UK online, and in the process, look at their labels and compare them to similar labels in the U.S. It's not just ketchup.

The butter sticks are wrapped in paper. I only buy the box with sticks inside, not the slab of butter. Sounds like this doesn't affect those who buy the butter sticks, which have a separate wrapper

Known this for years. Glad more people are catching on.