Tiny Organics Safety and Quality Standards
Ensuring Quality and Trust for Your Family
At Tiny Organics, our top priority is the health and safety of your little ones. As parents ourselves, we understand how important it is for you to trust the food you provide to your children. That’s why we are fully committed to ensuring the highest standards of safety, quality, and transparency in every Tiny Organics meal.
In accordance with California’s AB 899 legislation, we are proud to provide detailed information about the safety of our baby food products. This law requires baby food manufacturers to test for toxic elements—arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury—and to make this information easily accessible to parents.
Babies are more vulnerable to the effects of harmful substances, which is why it’s essential to minimize exposure to toxic elements. By sharing detailed test results for our products, we aim to give you the confidence that Tiny Organics is doing everything possible to provide the safest food for your child.
Heavy Metals Testing Results
How to Understand Testing Results
The value unit of measure is "ppb", or "parts per billion". This represents one part of a substance in a total of one billion parts (equivalent to one second in 32 years). When the less than ("<") symbol is present, it means the concentration of the substance being tested was below the detection limit of the laboratory's equipment. Our testing is completed by an independent 3rd party laboratory with ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation.
Legal Limits of Heavy Metals in Baby Food
There is very little regulation in the U.S. to establish legal limits of heavy metals in baby food. But thanks to recent advocacy efforts, in January 2025 the FDA issued industry guidance setting action levels for lead in processed food intended for babies and young children. In the E.U. limits have been set for lead, arsenic, and cadmium in baby foods.
* 10 ppb for fruits, vegetables (excluding single-ingredient root vegetables), mixtures (including grain- and meat-based mixtures), yogurts, custards/puddings, and single-ingredient meats; 20 ppb for single-ingredient root vegetables; and 20 ppb for dry infant cereals.
† inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereals
‡ inorganic arsenic
§ baby food and processed cereal-based food for infants and young children
How to Take Action
So why is this happening? Heavy metals are present in our environment, and can contaminate our food supply through the soil, water, and air. Because these elements occur in the environment, they cannot be completely avoided in the fruits, vegetables, or grains that are the basis for baby foods, whether store-bought or made from scratch at home.
However it’s important to keep in mind that the level of the heavy metal is what matters here. While completely avoiding heavy metals 100% is difficult since it comes from our environment, there are things you can do to reduce your little ones exposure, like feeding them a wide variety of different nutrient dense unprocessed foods. Check out our blog for more tips.