Excerpts from the article.  Thought this would be of interest.
Judy Ritchie


http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ng.asp?n=66478&m=1NIE317&c=ymhgzhkpfeeb
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Business, not science, driving infant milk formulations say doctors

By Stephen Daniells
....
In an editorial in the British Medical Journal, published today (Vol. 332,
pp. 621-622), Professors Berthold Koletzko from the Dr von Hauner Childrens
Hosptial in Munich and Raanan Shamir from the Meyer Childrens Hospital in
Haifa, Israel, indicate that the scientific recommendations were being
questioned and challenged by parties with commercial interests.

....
"The International Dairy Federation demanded that the proportion of protein
in formula derived from cows milk should be determined with a conversion
factor of 6.38 even though modern infant formulas contain modified milk
protein fractions for which this factor is not appropriate," said the
paediatricians.

Koletzko and von Hauner, say that scientific experts in three separate
reviews to the FDA, the EU and to the Codex Alimentarius Commission all
agreed that a conversion factor of 6.25 should be used.

....
By demanding the higher nitrogen conversion factor for cows milk would
suggest that the milk has a higher biological value than human breast milk,
say Koletzko and von Hauner, "which is clearly not the case."

The industry argued that changing to the lower conversion factor would
result in massive losses for the dairy industry. The German dairy industry
is said to have estimated losses of about 80m ($96m, 55m) in Europe alone
from such a policy.

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