This is from the Environmental Working Group based on the testing of tap
water in 1995.
http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/Reports/weed_Killer/weed_Exec.html

"Drinking water standards do not account for the vulnerability of infants to
toxic chemicals such as the weed killers found in our tests. Standards also
fail to account for the high volume of water young children drink relative to
adults. We estimate that 45,000 infants in 29 cities drank infant formula
reconstituted with tap water contaminated with weed killers during the
six-week study period. More than 10,000 infants drank infant formula made
with tap water with an average atrazine contamination level above the EPA
standard for the six-week period. These same 10,000, plus an additional 8,400
infants, drank infant formula made with tap water contaminated with cyanazine
at levels above the federal LHA. An estimated 28,000 infants drank infant
formula reconstituted with tap water that was contaminated with at least four
and as many as nine pesticides and toxic pesticide by-products during the six
week testing period."

A number of people posted that infant formula used vegetable fats only.  Some
formulas use vegetable fats only but some like Baby's Best use dairy fat,
too.
http:///www.babysbest.com/babyll.htm

Some formulas even use beef fat--called oleo on the label.  See
http://star-k.org/Kashrus/kk-thirst-formula.htm

Just thought this interesting and important for us to know.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC





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