Dear Friends:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100901111444.htm


ScienceDaily (Sep. 2, 2010) — The aluminum content of a range of the most
popular brands of infant formulas remains high, and particularly so for a
product designed for preterm infants and a soya-based product designed for
infants with cow's milk intolerances and allergies, researchers have found.

A study by a team at Keele University in Staffordshire, led by Dr Chris
Exley with Shelle-Ann M Burrell, demonstrating the vulnerability of infants
to early exposure to aluminum serves to highlight an urgent need to reduce
the aluminum content of infant formulas to as-low-a-level as is practically
possible. The research has been published in the journal *BMC Pediatrics*.

Infant formulas are integral to the nutritional requirements of preterm and
term infants. While it has been known for decades that infant formulas are
contaminated with significant amounts of aluminum there is little evidence
that manufacturers consider this to be a health issue. Aluminum is
non-essential and is linked to human disease. There is evidence of both
immediate and delayed toxicity in infants, and especially preterm infants,
exposed to aluminum and the team contends that there is still too much
aluminum in infant formulas.

There has been a long and significant history documenting the contamination
of infant formulas by aluminum and consequent health effects in children.
Through these and other publications manufacturers of infant formulas have
been made fully aware of the potentially compounded issue of both the
contamination by aluminum and the heightened vulnerability, from the point
of view of a newborn's developing physiology, of infants fed such formulas.

There have been similar warnings over several decades in relation to
aluminum toxicity and parenteral nutrition of preterm and term infants. To
these ends the expectation would be that the aluminum content of current
infant formulas would at the very least be historically low and at best
would be as low as might be achieved for a processed product. The team
tested this premise and found that the aluminum content of a range of
branded infant formulas remains too high.

In general, the aluminum content of formulas prepared from powdered milks
were significantly higher than ready-made milks.

The concentrations of aluminum in infant formulas are up to 40 times higher
than are present in breast milk. These concentrations are all several times
higher than are allowed in drinking water. They are clearly too high for
human consumption and certainly too high for consumption by such a
vulnerable group as pre-term and term infants.

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How is it that industry is allowed to poison babies?

warmly,

-- 
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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