Infant Formula Manufacturers Again under Ethical Cloud: 'Marketing Gimmick' Linked to Serious...

[annettemarie]

FTR, I'm posting this here not to slam on formula (which isn't the purpose of this forum) but because it really hits on the issue of the formula industry's "just like breastmilk" advertising tactics.

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&vi...s=9tsi5hg0nemx

But laboratory-produced DHASCO and ARASCO (Martek's names for their proprietary oils) are materially different from the fats found in a
mother's breast milk. Martek's products are extracted from fermented algae
and fungus, with the use of the neurotoxic solvent hexane. They contain
only 40 to 50% DHA and ARA, with the balance from sunflower oil and other
components, including some not found in human breast milk and never before
a part of the human infant diet.

"It's true that DHA and ARA are important nutrients for developing
infants--that's why they're found in human breast milk. But we have also
seen that some infants are experiencing side effects like diarrhea from
consuming the manufactured DHA and ARA oils in formula," says Jimi Francis,
Ph.D

[Individuation]

Link doesn't work--please repost!

[cschick]

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/d...5/baby_formula

http://cornucopia.org/DHA/DHA_FullReport.pdf

[Mama Poot]

I read that about the oils in LLL's 2001 release of Womanly Art of BFing. It makes sense. It doesn't take a scientist or doctor to understand that algae and sunflower oil aren't appropriate things for an infant to be ingesting.

[avedagrrl]

Hexane extraction is a nasty and toxic process. Hexane is a petroleum product and is carcinogenic even topically. How terrible that the formula company's don't have an issue with putting that nastiness into babies' bellies