The company announced this week that Publix, a national supermarket chain, is voluntarily recalling baby food that may be contaminated with lead.

The company said it discovered the problem through routine testing and pulled out baby food bags of green pear, kiwi, spinach and peas from the shelves, which the release said said “unreported cases of disease” related to the product.

This is the second recall of potential contamination in babies’ food in recent weeks – in neither case, the Food and Drug Administration has released its own news release to warn the public, which safety experts and advocates say has surprised them.

The FDA has not explained why it did not issue a press release in March’s Publix Resse recall or Target’s voluntary recall and collected Baby Pea, Zucchini, Kale and Thyme Vegetable Baby Food Pure. In this case, the FDA released details about the recall in the agency's public recall monitoring database.

“The FDA is committed to ensuring that all necessary information about product recalls is communicated quickly to protect public health,” the agency said in a statement.

Publix did not respond to a request for comment. Target said its good and gathered memories “involved limited products and we immediately took action to remove them from the shelves.”

The recall of concerns about contaminated baby food in children's bags that recall apple cinnamon mud bags in 2023. This happened to them when the Trump administration promised to make baby food safer by adding tests, although some safety advocates say those promises have been cut by deep staffing and funding cuts.

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Food safety experts and advocates say the FDA has not released a news release for all food recalls, but in identifying public health experts and advocates say that this usually poses a great risk. Last year, the FDA issued a press release to recall lead-contaminated cinnamon.

Sarah Sorscher, director of regulatory affairs at the Center for Supervision Affairs of the Advocate’s Public Interest Science Center, said the FDA chose not to publicize the two most recent recalls, given the serious health risks that have caused infants and young children, including brain damage, slower development and behavioral problems.

“There is no leading level of safety,” Sorscher notes. She added that the FDA amplified recall could help attract more consumers, especially for products such as baby food that can live longer. "This increases the attention the storage and consumers give it, so it's more likely to take it out of the shelf," she said.

Lead contamination may occur during manufacturing, but it can also occur through contaminated soil used to grow agricultural products.

In January, in the last few weeks of the Biden administration, the FDA set the highest level of lead for baby food for the first time. Food safety experts and advocates say that while the standard is voluntary, it helps to push baby food companies to do more testing and start recalls.

“The industry is taking this guidance to heart and being more proactive,” said Jennifer van de Ligt, a baby food expert who has been one of the FDA scientists in recent weeks. “If that guide is kept in place, it should put pressure on the industry.”

The Trump administration has launched a high-profile effort to make infant formula and baby food safer at stork speed action. The government said in March that the plan would include "increasing testing of heavy metals and other contaminants consumed by children with infant formula and other foods".

The FDA has not provided details on this increased test, and when asked this week it pointed out its new efforts to review nutrients in infant formula. Meanwhile, the impact of food safety advocates and former agency staff on the Trump administration’s massive layoffs on food safety issues such as lead pollution has attracted attention.

In April, the agency closed a federal lab that specialized in testing foods for lead and other heavy metals and terminated its staff, only backtracking a few weeks later. Sources said the FDA also stalled after termination of communications and public records staff.

The government also fired federal experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who worked to prevent lead poisoning in children and proposed to eliminate lead poisoning prevention programs in the leaked draft budget. A CDC spokesman said in a statement that the agency's restructuring plan is being finalized, but "the work of the plan will continue."

Sorscher believes there is a contradiction between the government's support for baby food safety and its many actions. “What they are talking about is doing to clean up the food supply and what they are actually doing,” she said.