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CDC Study Finds Rocket Fuel Chemical in Baby Formula

It’s a little known fact that everything we eat contains all kinds of “non food” elements. The government has also established all kinds of “acceptable” contamination scales. In New York there is a rat dropping rating, yes, there is rat droppings in restaurant food, they just have to stay within guidelines. As far as I am concerned, no contamination is acceptable, but in a commercial food environment, its never possible. Unless you grow, and process all of your own food, you will never have full control over its “cleanliness”. After the Chinese melamine scare, I think our society has become hypersensitive to the nature of contamination in food. What really sets this story apart, is the fact that it’s the most rudimentary requirement a baby has. Either breast milk or formula. The fact that it seems so contaminated, seems so wrong. The fact is, the child will grow up in a world of hormones and vitamins in cows milk from the store, and every additive you can imagine in prepared foods from the frozen foods isle. Its a fact of our human culture. I, for one, predict a decentralization of our food, and a movement back to local grown, and processed foods.

pd_bottle_070806_ms-300x300openquotePerchlorate, a hazardous chemical in rocket fuel, has been found at potentially dangerous levels in powdered infant formula, according to a study by a group of U.S. Centers for Disease Control scientists. The study, published last month by The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, has intensified the years-long debate about whether or how the federal government should regulate perchlorate in the nation’s drinking water.

According to the CDC, perchlorate exposure can damage the thyroid, which can hinder brain development among infants. For nearly a decade, Democratic members of Congress, the Department of Defense, the White House and the Environmental Protection Agency have been fighting about how much perchlorate in water is too much.

In the new study, CDC scientists tested 15 brands of infant formula and found perchlorate in all of them. The names of the brands weren’t revealed because the CDC says the study “was not designed to compare brands.” But the study does say that the formulas with the highest perchlorate levels are the most popular. The most contaminated brands were lactose-based as opposed to soy-based and accounted for 87% of the infant formulas on the market in 2000, the latest data available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The study points out that when perchlorate-contaminated powdered formula is mixed with water that also contains traces of the chemical, as many drinking water sources around the country do, the final concoction can become particularly harmful to babies.

“As this unprecedented study demonstrates, infants fed cow’s milk- based powdered formula could be exposed to perchlorate from two sources – tap water and formula. That suggests that millions of American babies are potentially at risk,” said Anila Jacob, a physician and a senior scientist with Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that posted the study on its Web site.closequote

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April 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Human Interest

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