[kind of an odd news item here.  It kind of reinforces that this is product is mass-produced in large factories, not carefully mixed in a lab.  I think it also perhaps shows how the product itself is quite low in value - that the leak was undetected, even though it was a large amount.  Isn't Prosobee one of the more expensive formula's?  But that high cost to purchasers may not have anything to do with the cost of the product ingrediants themselves - if it did, I'd imagine that MJ would have found that leak a lot earlier.]

Formula spill costs company $12,140

http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/news/article/0,1626,ECP_734_4378802,00.html

Mead Johnson & Co. has agreed to pay $12,140 in fines and other costs over the leak last year of thousands of gallons of infant formula into Evansville sewers. 

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According to an administrative compliance order approved Tuesday by the board, Mead Johnson lost - by its estimate - 8,600 gallons of ProSobee Infant Formula. The discharge went undetected by the company over a four-hour period. The company learned of the leak from the sewage plant's pretreatment office. 

"The plant turned white," is how Lawson described the effect of the discharge at the treatment facility's intake.

(see link for full news item)

Janice Reynolds





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