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post #1 of 18
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[kind of an odd news item here. It kind of reinforces that this is product is mass-produced in large factories, not carefully mixed in a lab. I think it also perhaps shows how the product itself is quite low in value - that the leak was undetected, even though it was a large amount. Isn't Prosobee one of the more expensive formula's? But that high cost to purchasers may not have anything to do with the cost of the product ingrediants themselves - if it did, I'd imagine that MJ would have found that leak a lot earlier.]

Formula spill costs company $12,140

http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/news...378802,00.html

Mead Johnson & Co. has agreed to pay $12,140 in fines and other costs over the leak last year of thousands of gallons of infant formula into Evansville sewers.

<snip>

According to an administrative compliance order approved Tuesday by the board, Mead Johnson lost - by its estimate - 8,600 gallons of ProSobee Infant Formula. The discharge went undetected by the company over a four-hour period. The company learned of the leak from the sewage plant's pretreatment office.

"The plant turned white," is how Lawson described the effect of the discharge at the treatment facility's intake.

(see link for full news item)

Janice
post #2 of 18
That's scary that it is seen as a nasty thing to spill by the authorities!

Prosobee is a soy formula, which might be more expensive, yes. One of my babies tasted it once and made the most godawful face I've ever seen. Yucky stuff!
post #3 of 18
Milk is considered a hazardous material, too, so don't read too much into that
One does wonder how much of a profit margin the companies are making...
post #4 of 18
Ewwww...whats funny to me is I live in a farm area and they have the same fines for when farmers let manouer (sp?) spill off into water sources (pond, creek, stream, lake, river, etc)
post #5 of 18
I think milk is considered hazardous due to the slipperyness. When a milk tanker overturns on a roadway, that's a major problem. If a farmer's milk tank is leaking onto the ground, they don't have to call the EPA or anything.
post #6 of 18
I am in awe at the amount! Over 2,000 gallons per hour was lost and Mead Johnson didn't even notice. How much is being produced? That is insane!

Must of shocked the sewer guys to see all this white sh%&

Kara
post #7 of 18
Whatta waste... and I agree, it's probably so cheap to produce and yet so expensive to buy. Cheap ingredients though...

Was this Evansville, Indiana? The link wanted me to register.
post #8 of 18
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post #9 of 18
Also, keep in mind that milk (or formula) spoils very rapidly- what's "food" one moment is "toxic waste" a few hours later.
post #10 of 18
Eww. But you think Prosobee smells bad initially, wait til they fart it. Gag!
post #11 of 18
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Originally Posted by JamesMama
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post #12 of 18
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That's scary that it is seen as a nasty thing to spill by the authorities!
Anything not rain or snow or similar is considered that way.
post #13 of 18
Prosobee isn't any better than any of the standard formulas out there. There are a couple natural ones I might consider were I forced to supplement and couldn't get milk from friends.
post #14 of 18
Makes you wonder about the profit margin.
post #15 of 18
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Originally Posted by Slabobbin
Makes you wonder about the profit margin.
I'll say!
post #16 of 18
Well, I'm pretty sure that infant formula has an MSDS sheet (you know, in case it spills they'll know what it is, what's in it and how to clean it up), but I don't think milk does.

Just the headline made me chuckle - ooh, it leaked into the sewar and they got FINED for it. Hahahahaha!
post #17 of 18
I think most factories have rules about what and how they discharge to sewers - if you dump a huge bolus of something it really strains the system, and can muck up pH, etc in the processing plant, so they make you dilute things or pretreat them to reduce the impact.
post #18 of 18
I submitted this to News of the Weird (www.newsoftheweird.com ).
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