German Company Removed the VitaminThe Remedia beriberi crisis took a dramatic turn today, when the company's attorney told a Knesset committee that the German manufacturer of the soy-based baby-formula had consciously removed Vitamin B1 from the ingredients. The manufacturer - Humana GmbH, part of a collective that is Germany's second biggest producer of milk products - reportedly removed the vitamin because it was already found in sufficient quantities in the soy on which the product was based. This, however, leaves unanswered the question of why no B1 at all was found in the latest Health Ministry tests of the product....