> I hope Gonneke will respond to this one, Pamela.
> I'm sure she will be quite able to handle this one !
>
> Renate.
>
Thank you, Renate :-) I was thinking the same of you or Annelies...
I'm not good in remembering refenrences, but I do know that there have been
several studies in the Netherlands in the last decade, studying the incidence of
dioxine in human milk and its effects on child development. The outcomes were
that indeed human milk can contain high amounts od dioxines, but the ill effects
thereoff on neurological development are not more then in children fed
artificial baby milk. In fact neurological development was comparable in
children fed contaminated human milk or AIM. It is whispered that one or more of
these studies were paid for by Numico and that the researchers were not able to
honestly say that contaminated human milk is inferior to AIM.
Perhaps Annelies knows the references to these studies?
Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, living in Maaseik, Belgium
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> At 13:39 5-9-00 +0200, you wrote:
> >Calling our Dutch colleagues on Lactnet. I have just had a call from an OB
> >who sounded like he was being interviewed by someone, and wanted to quote
> >me, asking about a recent report of estrogens and/or dioxins in the
> >breastmilk of Dutch mothers. My answer to him was that scares like this
> >often come up, and that breastfeeding remains safer than formula-feeding,
> >dioxins notwithstanding.
> >
> >I also said I would find out more and get back to him. That these kind of
> >questions should be asked in Africa is scary. I have just instituted a
> >Search or our Archives, I know we have discussed this topic before, but I
> >wondered - has anything *recently* re-raised its ugly head on this issue in
> >Holland??
> >
> >Thanks for any help/comments, and if you reply, I hope that I may quote you
> >to the OB??
> >
> >Pamela Morrison IBCLC, Zimbabwe
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