Rogan WJ: Cancer from PCBs in breast milk? a risk benefit analysis
[Abstract No. 612] Pediatr Res 25:105A, 1989.

This is the only citation I have to support any quantification of
the annual number of infant deaths (the author gives 4,000 as his
conclusion) in the US that can be traced to the use of ABM instead
of human milk.  However, this is only an abstract, and no details
are provided on the author's method of arriving at that number.  Does
anyone have a better citation, or details about the method used to
arrive at that number?

If there is a supportable figure for ABM-linked infant mortality, I
think it is a number that should be widely publicized.  When the US
Consumer Product Safety Commission is willing to go all out to make
public the dangers of pull strings on sweatshirts, which have caused
maybe 5 child deaths in the last decade, I think that any number of
infant deaths from formula will make parents sit up and take notice.

J. Rachael Hamlet
Author, The Breastfeeding Advocacy Page
http://www.clark.net/pub/activist/bfpage/bfpage.html