http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1301515/Female-babies-China-grow-breasts-drinking-milk-laced-hormones.html

Female babies in China have grown breasts after they were given milk
laced with hormones.

The horrifying scenes have caused uproar among parents in central China,
who fear that the milk powder they used had led to the premature
developments.

The official China Daily newspaper reported today that medical tests
indicated that the level of hormones in three 'test case' girls, ranging
in age from four months to 15 months, exceeded those found in the
average adult woman.

All the babies who showed symptoms of the phenomenon were fed the same
baby formula.


'The amount of hormones in the babies definitely means there's a
problem,' said Mr Yang Qin, chief physician in the child care department
at the Hubei Maternity and Children's Hospital.

He urged parents to stop using the formula and insisted that the milk
powder be subjected to chemical analysis.

But his suggestion has come up against red tape.

Local food safety authorities have refused one mother's request to
investigate the formula, made by the Synutra company, claiming they do
not conduct tests when requested by consumers.

According to the Global Times newspaper the suspect baby formula is
still being sold in the Hubei provincial capital, Wuhan, at discounted
prices and is also on store shelves in Beijing.

Synutra insisted that its products were safe, claiming that 'no man-made
hormones or any illegal substances were added during the production of
the milk powder'.

As experts tried to pin down the source of the hormones that resulted in
babies growing breasts, a dairy association said the hormones could have
entered the food chain when farmers reared the cattle.

'Since a regulation forbidding the use of hormones to cultivate
livestock has yet to be drawn up in China, it would be lying to say
nobody uses it,' said Mr Wang Dingmian, the former chairman of the dairy
association in the southern province of Guangdong.

Two years ago Chinese dairy products were recalled worldwide after it
was revealed that melamine, used to make plastics, was widely and
illegally added to the products to give the appearance of higher protein.

At least six infants died and 300,000 others fell sick as a result of
the malamine additions, it was claimed.



<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1301515/Female-babies-China-grow-breasts-drinking-milk-laced-hormones.html#ixzz0w9ITQw9T>Morgan
Gallagher

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