right now at 5:30 an update to a
consumer alert we first brought you on
the on the morning show potentially
dangerous levels of metals inside the
fruit juice that you've probably given
to your children Consumer Reports tested
dozens of juices and found many are
considered risky since that report came
out at six o'clock we've been looking at
the better juice options for your kids
and also what you can do as a parent to
change the way that juice is regulated
in the future Melanie Lawson has a list
of the best options out there but first
we begin with Elizabeth Campbell who
looked into the potential dangers for
children and also adults Elizabeth well
what's very concerning is out of them
more than 40 juices that were tested by
Consumer Reports the majority of them
are from a wide variety of common brands
from very common stores and if you see
the words like organic all-natural 100%
juice that does not mean it's in the
clear because for instance this Trader
Joe's organic apple juice this organic
Whole Foods grape cranberry and this
Welch's 100% grape juice all made the
list of concern you can find it in every
grocery store even big-box stores
drugstores and more juice do you allow
them to have juice it's not my favorite
I prefer water but we do buy the honest
brand and I've started to let them take
it for lunch
Nickey Holmes has four kids under age 11
and was shocked when I told her that
many popular juice brands contain high
levels of a cadmium lead mercury and
inorganic arsenic some of the most
potentially harmful metals to your
health it's been an arrest to adults
and/or children a Trader Joe's organic
Apple kids could be at risk for lower to
IQ behavioral problems like ADHD type-2
diabetes and cancer and even modest
amounts of these metals and adults could
raise the risk of bladder lung and skin
cancer cognitive and reproductive
problems and type 2 diabetes Consumer
Reports says the solution is cutting out
Juice
or at least cutting back the American
Association of Pediatrics says children
younger than one shouldn't have any
fruit juice one two three year olds
should have no more than four ounces a
day six ounces for four to six year olds
and eight ounces for seven year olds my
kids have had an occasional mots or a
minute made but we're going to have to
have a conversation definitely caught
off guard by some of these on there I am
Elizabeth Wow
Consumer Reports says overall the amount
of metals that are found in these juices
has improved since the last time they
did similar testing in 2011 but they
still say there are so much room to
improve and a juice similar to this 10
ounces is more than any age is
recommended to have per day if you want
to see the list of all the juices
including the ones that have the highest
percentage of these metals you can head
to news for John's comm reporting live
this evening Elizabeth Campbell Channel
four the local station Elizabeth so I
mean what would it take for the
companies to lower the levels of these
metals that are been found in their
juices sorry the excuse me Consumer
Reports says that it's really up to
government restrictions restrictions by
the FDA and they say right now there
aren't a lot of those limitations they
say that they have reached out to the
FDA for comment on these new test
results they're waiting to hear back in
the meantime they say if parents are
concerned by this to reach out to the
FDA and ask them to add more strict
requirements to what can be found in
these juices definitely an eye-opening
report Elizabeth Campbell reporting to
us live thank you