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- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Gerber Products Company and Nestlé USA over baby-food heavy-metal contamination.
- The 68-page complaint, filed in Collin County, invokes the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
- Paxton alleges 67 rice-flour batches contain arsenic nine times the legal limit and excess lead and cadmium.
- Internal tests found rice with >90 ppb arsenic, sweet potatoes with 48 ppb lead, and carrots with 87 ppb cadmium.
- Gerber says its products meet limits, that metals cannot be eliminated, and that it reduces them through sourcing and testing.
