> As for the Texas LC, makes you wonder a bit doesn't it?
>

ACK!!  Makes you wonder WHAT???  Makes me wonder if it was Texas, and
also makes me wonder if it was an IBCLC.  Also makes me wonder why we
keep training and training and training, and *still* hear such
misinformation!!

Tom Hale posted the following to Lactnet on December 30, 1998:

> I just ran across a paper on silicone transfer to breast milk from implants.
> Some of you may have seen it previously.  Basically found none transferred
> over normal background levels.
>
> However, check out the cow's milk (10 times more) and formula (80 times
> more).  Now those of us from cow country understand that cow's need lots of
> silica, silicone, and other minerals to grow.
>
> I posted the abstract on my web page, but the reference is :
>
> Semple JL, et.al. Breast Milk contamination and silicone implants:
> Preliminary results using silicon as a proxy measurement for silicone.
> Plast Reconstr Surg 1998 Aug;102(2):528-33
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Tom Hale, R.Ph., Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Pediatrics
>
> http://neonatal.ttuhsc.edu/lact/
>

I just checked out Tom's website - the annotated bib is still there.
Have a look.

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