Dear Colleagues:

There is an excellent article on the ins and outs of adding various unsaturated
fatty acids to artificial infant formulas in the September 1996 issue of AAP
News,page 22.  It strongly supports the issue that breast milks' unique fatty
acid composition is terribly sophisticated and we don't yet understand this
field well enough to just dump some new fatty acids in formulas and presume
they are safe for the bottle-fed infant.

It does a great job of illustrating the point that just adding exogenous DHA or
Aracidonic acid to formulas may be more harmful than helpful and that a great
deal more research is needed before these substances should be added to
formulas.

Its good reading.

Tom Hale, Ph.D.