Comments on: Industrial Chemicals and Infant Baby Formula

By: kathy

kathy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:10:42 +0000

This is another reason that more and more mothers are breastfeeding their babies. We can go over board on how much we want the goverment to regulate our lives. They need to put all the indigridents on the bottles of formula like they do with all other foods. We need someone to watch how many chemicals they put in our babies formula. We need someone to be held legealy accountable. If the manfuactures faced jail time maybe they would be more careful of what is in the formula we are feeding to our babies.

By: Appalled

Appalled — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:08:56 +0000

Dear Shocked – Are you the parent of an infant? I’m going to go with “no” since your main concern here seems to be burdening the government with more regulation. I, on the other hand, am a parent of a 10-month old and I have been feeding my baby the top-of-the-line formula available on the market since at 2 weeks old he was not gaining enough weight by breast feeding alone. That top-of-the-line formula brand happens to be one of the one’s I just discovered has “trace” amounts of melanine. I have been unknowingly poisoning my baby for 10 months! I have been doing everything I know how to give him the healthiest diet I can – and yet I was being fooled! How many parts-per-million do you feel comfortabe giving your baby when you’re feeding him 1/4 of his body weight in formula each day? Absolutely, it is up to the consumer to protect themselves – and I have now switched to an “off brand” which ironically hasn’t been named as one of the culprits YET. But how can I as a consumer protect myself – or my baby – if I have no idea what chemicals are going into his formula?!? I guess that makes me naive that I rely on the list of INGREDIENTS rather than having some sort of psychic ability to know what other crap is going in there. Also, I am 100% with Dr. Seigal on this observation – how absolutely CARELESS of the FDA to ARBITRARILY decide how many parts per million of poison is okay to feed my son! What research do they have to support this? I’m completely appalled!

By: Vicky Daly

Vicky Daly — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:53:42 +0000

Melamine was also the culprit in the big pet food recall in March of 2007. FDA investigation identified melamine as the “toxin” found in the pet foods which sickened and killed many pets.
They also traced this melamine back to the wheat gluten source imported from China.

By: Shocked

Shocked — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:03:58 +0000

I am totally shocked that someone at Fox News is advocating yet more burdensome government regulations for a problem like melamine. Obviously this problem can be easily be solved by consumers avoiding products that contain melamine. To help out consumer determine what products are safe, industry can sell consumers home testing kits for melamine. Government is not the solution, it’s the problem!

By: kandylini

kandylini — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:42:25 +0000

Parents should be concerned about the cumulative exposure to melamine their young children and infants are exposed to, since potentially ANY food with a high protein content may be contaminated with melamine:

“In addition, it would be useful for manufacturers to be alert to the possibility that non-milk-derived ingredients from China that are or may be sold on the basis of protein content, such as soy protein, also could be contaminated with melamine.”
-FDA, in its “Dear Colleague” letter to food manufacturers.
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/melamltr.html