". . . .I was in the local supermarket today and guess what was there in
a locked glass cabinet? All the infant formula. The store moved all the
formula into a glass case and placed at it at the end of an isle where
it can be monitored. Their risk management people found they were
"loosing" a lot of it to theft."

This has become a national problem and has nothing to do with feeding
babies.  Powdered formula is, apparently, the perfect medium for
combining with heroin and/or other street drugs, and it is a hot
commodity in the druggie community.  In WIC some women are getting full
formula pkgs while breastfeeding so they can sell it as a "cash crop" to
the drug dealers.  This has been written up in numerous newspapers.  I
don't know why they can't use powdered milk, but I guess powdered
formula works better for the purpose.  Very sad.

P.D. Gordon RN, BS, BSN, IBCLC
DE Div of Public Health-Communicable Disease


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