FDA Announces US Formula With Melamine

The US Food & Drug Administration has been quietly testing infant formula for both melamine and cyanuric acid, two chemicals that have been responsible for the deaths of 300,000 infants in China.

While the infants in China were subjected to smaller amounts of the chemicals, where are the long terms clinical tests that determine that ANY amounts of plastic resin powder and a cleaning chemical are safe for our babies???????????????

Though melamine is not believed harmful in tiny amounts, higher concentrations produce kidney stones, which can block the ducts that carry urine from the body, and in serious cases can cause kidney failure.

To date, here are the FDA results for detections in U.S.-made formula (for the complete report, click here):

Two samples tested from one can of Mead Johnson's Infant
Formula Powder, Enfamil LIPIL with Iron had cyanuric acid at levels
of 0.412 and 0.31 parts per million;

Three samples tested from one can of Mead Johnson's Infant
Formula Powder, Enfamil LIPIL with Iron had cyanuric acid at levels
of 0.304, 0.406 and 0.248 parts per million;

Three samples tested from one can of Mead Johnson's Infant
Formula Powder, Enfamil LIPIL with Iron had cyanuric acid at levels
of 0.247, 0.245 and 0.249 parts per million;

Two samples from a can of Nestle's Good Start Supreme Infant
Formula with Iron detected melamine at levels of 0.137 and 0.14
parts per million.

Before the contamination was disclosed, federal food regulators had said they were unable to set a safety threshold for melamine in infant formula. After the news reports, however, the agency set a threshold of 1 part per million of melamine in formula, provided a related chemical, including cyanuric acid, is not present. None of the formula has tested above that threshold.

Legal action has been taken against companies that include melamine and cyanuric acid in pet foods. The travesty is that we appear to care more for our pets than our children. As Linda Smith LCCE, IBCLC (http://www.bflrc.com/) has stated, there is no excuse for any levels of melamine or cyanuric acid in any food ingested by infants.

Well said.