Diabetes is too complicated. It would be very difficult to "prove" in
court that the diabetes was caused by formula. It comes up later in
childhood and there are too many other factors that play a role. It
will be hard enough to demonstrate that the powdered formula caused the
brain damage as opposed to the prematurity itself or some other factor.

Naomi Bar-Yam


On Dec 16, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> I had envisioned the first(?) lawsuit to be more on the lines of
> "child,
> with uninformed parents, is fed (free) formula in the hospital and
> later
> develops diabetes so parents sue".
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