Toxic Heavy Metals in Baby Food with Pedram Esfandiary

<p>Pedram Esfandiary<strong> </strong>is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, where he concentrates his practice on toxic tort injuries, pharmaceutical drug liability, class actions, consumer fraud litigation and police misconduct lawsuits.</p> <p>He currently leads the firm’s legal team that is filing lawsuits against manufacturers of baby food for knowingly selling baby food with with “dangerously high levels” of toxic heavy metals. This new mass tort litigation involves allegations against the major brand manufacturers (Nurture Happy Family Organics, Beech-But, Hain, Plum Organics, Walmart-Parent’s Choice, Sprout Foods and Gerber) that their baby food contains dangerous levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury, which are all considered toxic heavy metals and are known to damage neurological development and brain development in infants and are associated with autism and ADHD in children.</p> <p>Pedram was an integral part of the trial team that <a href= "https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/blog/2019/may/monsanto-hit-with-2-billion-verdict-losing-third/">won the historic $2 billion verdict against Monsanto</a> (now Bayer) in May 2019 on behalf of a couple who together sprayed Roundup weed killer on their properties for 30 years. The jury awarded Alva and Alberta Pilliod $55 million in compensatory damages. Pedram was also served in a similar capacity on the very first Roundup cancer case to go to trial against Monsanto, resulting in a <a href= "https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/documents/pdf/monsanto-documents/johnson-trial/Johnson-vs-Monsanto-Verdict-Form.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$289 million verdict on behalf of groundskeeper Dewayne “Lee” Johnson</a>. And he participated in the second Roundup trial against Monsanto on behalf of Edwin Hardeman. The jury in that trial <a href= "https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/hardeman-v-monsanto-co-/">awarded Mr. Hardeman $80 million</a> for his damages.</p> <p>A winner on Law360’s Rising Stars To