Apple juice: It’s the golden elixir of childhood, considered by
our parents’ generation to be the healthiest thing to feed kids
since chicken soup. To today’s parents, apple juice has become
just the opposite. The sticky-sweet taste comes with extra sugar
and calories that contribute to rising childhood obesity levels,
and in recent months, there's been intense public debate around
potentially dangerous concentrations of the posion arsenic in
apple juice. Now, Consumer Reports has published the results of
a large-scale investigation into arsenic and lead levels in
popular brands of apple juice and grape juice. Ten percent of
the 88 juice samples tested contained arsenic levels that
exceeded federal drinking water limits of 10 parts per billion
(ppb). Twenty-five percent of the samples contained lead levels
greater than 5 ppb, the safety level set by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) for bottled water. Most of the arsenic
found in the juices was inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen.
The magazine tested a