>Have you seen the recent material on the "fake" Similac?

I heard about it on "As It Happens," the Canadian show broadcast on NPR (in
our area, just after "All Things Considered").  Actually, the focus of the
interview (with FDA high official, deputy general or something?  I would
recognize her title and name if I heard them again) was on post-dated cans
of all formula being illegally bought retail at loss-leader prices,
warehoused, reboxed with new expiry dates and sold back to the retail
stores.  She said they caught on to the scam vis-a-vis investigating the
fake Similac, and it is a very big problem.  One warehouse alone was doing
millions of dollars in business (per what time frame, I'm not sure).
Pirated ABM, what next?

Back to the fake Similac, makes me wonder WHAT is in those cans!  I don't
know if you know about the Beech-Nut apple juice scam--for 8 years they
bought an unknown chemical concoction from a wholesaler in the Bronx who
gave them such a deal, they didn't want to know what was in it.  Well, it
didn't have any apple juice, at least.  Anyway, it was sort of an in-joke
among nutritionists around the time of the ALAR pesticide scare (you know,
ALAR on apples, we were worried about the health effects on children, high
consumers of apple juice)---we just laughed and said, well, at least
Beech-Nut hasn't got any ALAR in it--doesn't have any apple juice in it,
either!  (Rather grim humor) (See FDA Consumer and especially Consumer
Reports for good articles on this.)  I understand Nestle (Carnation) owns
Beech-Nut.  It seems to fit their corporate image.

Has anyone evaluated the fake Similac for chemical composition?  I'll try
to run a search on Lexis/Nexis (our connection to them has been acting
poorly lately).

Arly in Utah (BA, MS in Nutrition and Food Sciences)

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