Posted on 04/03/2009 7:24:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A chemical used in explosives, fireworks and rocket fuel has been found in powdered baby formula in the United States, the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) said.
In "little-noticed findings," researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 15 brands of baby formula contained perchlorate, an oxidizer in solid fuels used in explosives, fireworks, road flares and rocket motors, the EWG said.
"Studies have established that the chemical is a potent thyroid toxin that may interfere with fetal and infant brain development," it said.
The EWG said the CDC study's findings raised "new concerns about perchlorate pollution, a legacy of Cold War rocket and missile tests."
The CDC study, which was conducted in 2006 and published last month in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, said perchlorate could inhibit the absorption of iodine by the thyroid and lead to growth and developmental problems in infants.
For the study, researchers tested samples of baby formula which they had picked up in a local shop.
The two most tainted brands, both cow's milk-based formulas with lactose, had a nearly 90-percent share of the US powdered baby milk market in 2000, the report found.
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Let me guess... made in China!
You couldn’t be more WRONG. REPUTABLE infant formula is safe and nutritious.
“Frankly, you’d have to be nuts to use ANY powdered baby formula, or any kind of powdered milk.”
call me nuts then.
0af in chief? Yes he is.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!
CDC Study Finds Rocket Fuel Chemical in Baby Formula
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-chemical-in-baby-formula
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study (pdf)
http://www.propublica.org/article/jes200918a.pdf
I know a little something about pumping contaminants out of ground water. Not an easy thing to accomplish.
Not to mention it is naturally occurring.
Still, that’s not something you want in your baby formula.
Score one for breast feeding.
The NAS says 20 parts per billion perchlorate in drinking water is safe. The Department of Defense makes a case for 200 parts per billion being safe. If the amounts being found in the formula were more than 20 ppb, you can be sure the author would have included that information. He didn't. The chemicalphobes and toxic terrorists ignore this information for a reason.
Plutonium, an element, is indeed found in nature. Just not in a pure form.
Some of its ores are concentrated enough naturally to be harmful.
It is also found in breast milk.
Does anyone doubt that we are already under attack? Contaminated dog food. Contaminated human food of various types. Now contaminated baby formula and dangerous sheet-rock. And I'm willing to bet it's just the tip of the ice berg.
As is deadly dihydrogen monoxide!
Okay, okay, I’ll go quietly.
If the Chinese contaminated products are an attack, they’re mostly attacking themselves.
Breast is best ping
International Formula Council (IFC) Reassures Parents about Perchlorate and the Safety of Infant Formula
* Friday April 3, 2009, 5:42 pm EDT
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/International-Formula-Council-prnews-14847906.html
ATLANTA, April 3 /PRNewswire/ —
IFC’s* position:
Although recent media attention has focused on the presence of trace levels of perchlorate in powdered infant formula, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have studied perchlorate extensively and have established safe reference levels that are appropriate for all consumers, including sensitive sub-populations like infants. Trace levels of perchlorate that have been detected in some infant formulas are far below those safe reference values. Health authorities continue to emphasize that infant formula is safe and the FDA “is not recommending that consumers of any age alter their diet or eating habits due to perchlorate.”
Perchlorate is not an ingredient in infant formula. Perchlorate can be present in the environment, drinking water, and the food supply chain, and thus trace levels may be found in infant formula and breast milk. The body of scientific evidence indicates that these trace levels do not pose a health risk.
As an industry, members of the IFC take all safety issues very seriously. Our research and development programs are targeted to produce the highest quality of infant formula products available. When new information becomes available on substances like perchlorate, we support bringing the information forward through the accepted process of scientific peer review and evaluation. This helps ensure that it is evaluated with consideration to existing science and that policies are driven by sound science.
Parents and health professionals can be assured infant formula is safe and nutritious. For parents concerned with the perchlorate levels in their drinking water supply, FDA recommends reconstituting infant formula with bottled water or water from a home treatment device certified for perchlorate removal.
Background:
Perchlorate occurs naturally and is more commonly found in certain geographic areas, such as the Southwestern United States. Perchlorates are found in the environment and in the food supply.
* ToxGuide for Perchlorate and Perchlorate Salts
o for Perchlorate and Perchlorate Salts CAS# 107-02-8 September 2008 ... Human exposure to perchlorate is expected to occur through the ingestion of food and milk.
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxguides/toxguide-162.pdf
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“I don’t think this is funny.
Our babies deserve better.”
Did you know that perchlorates exist in nature?
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Well, isn’t the answer clear? Nature needs to be subject to the EPA, the FDA, perhaps also the Customs Agency. The next time, if there’s a hurricane on Bambi’s watch, Mother Nature can be thrown in jail, fined, stipped of her title and so forth.
Perchlorates are everywhere, and we already know it’s in groundwater, cow’s milk, and BREAST MILK all over the US. Why *wouldn’t* there be a bit of perchlorate in cow’s milk-based baby formula powder? Perchlorates are also used in airbags, road flares, and as a medication for hyperthyroidism, among many other things.
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