Just a short note which may be of interest to all Lactnetters. I found the
following information while nosing around the news on the internet. It seems
that a company called Neose Technologies (Nasdaq:NTEC) has entered into a
strategic alliance with Abbott Laboratories for the commercialization of
breast milk oligosaccharides (these are a disease preventive factor in breast
milk). These will soon be an additive in Similac and Isomil.

Now we have the DHA and AA from tuna eyeballs and marine algae, cloned human
milk bile salt stimulated lipase, human lactoferrin from genetically altered
cows, and oligosaccharides made from who knows what!!!! Maybe they will be
able to mutate a cow into a substitute human-like bovine mother. Whatever
happened to the real thing?

Talk about experimenting on unsuspecting people! How do we know all of these
additives will not one day react with each other and turn into the formula
that ate Cleveland? I continue to worry about how these items will be
advertised to parents and health care professionals.