Comments on: Toxic baby formula: Gee, who could have guessed?

By: Nadine L.

Nadine L. — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:29:32 +0000

How about 100…(700 tons of it!) And it was sent to Taiwan, too.

And get this:

“Irrespective of melamine, infant formulas prepared in China shouldn’t be put on the market, the agency said. All their manufacturers (such as Nestle USA, PBM Nutritionals and SHS/Nutricia of Liverpool, England) are asked to register with the FDA and, also, to meet a series of requirements. Not even one Chinese corporation has complied with those requirements.”

http://www.efluxmedia.com/news.....24262.html

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:23:12 +0000

I bet you can multiple that by at least 10 and still not have the real number.

By: Nadine L.

Nadine L. — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:15:18 +0000

432 babies ill and counting:

http://afp.google.com/article/.....Ya9ImTbV3g

By: Nadine L.

Nadine L. — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:15:02 +0000

AP reports 140 babies on 9/13.

http://ap.google.com/article/A.....gD935N7UG1

By: Nadine L.

Nadine L. — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:57:35 +0000

Just like the reported number of sick and dead pets eventually rose, the number of affected babies is rising - jumped today from 13 to 95.

http://afp.google.com/article/.....R3gu0XvXuA

By: annie may

annie may — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:51:39 +0000

I have been reading this blog (and loving it) for ages now. Love the people, the posts, the doggies and the awesome chickens. We lost our beloved old 17+ year old kitty last year from the toxic pet foods. We removed all commercial pet foods from our remaining two kitties and fed homemade and their own symptoms disappeared (frothy yellow vomit, etc etc). I’m firmly convinced that despite his advanced age the tainted pet food is what stole my soulkitty Bear from me. And now they’re killing babies with this crap…what is wrong with China?

The only way this will change is if we stop buying their dangerous products. If they cannot sell the cheap potentially deadly stuff they will be forced to either go out of business or make decent quality stuff to sell to companies. (Not that i’d ever trust chinese goods again anyway though. Toooooo many incidents for this to all be just a few isolated greedy bastards…toxic pet food, toxic pet and child toys, toxic baby items like bibs, deadly drug adulterations, unfit for consumption fish and other foods…it’s the entire philosophy over there that’s the problem I think.)

By: Sandi K

Sandi K — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:04:04 +0000

Yes and they say they have been trying to recall it all since then but yet there is still 700 metric tons of the stuff floating out there? Good job getting it back…NOT. But one thing thats really bugging me is the point Carol V made above. All the FDA releases are saying melamine caused the problem in the babies in China and it can cause kidney disease but yet I clearly remember reading FDA saying during the pet food recalls that melamine by itself wasnt toxic. So is this not true anymore, or was there some other toxin in the powdered baby milk or what? It would be good to know as it could potentially change what the pet food recalls were about……

By: Carol V

Carol V — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:25:14 +0000

According to this link to the news article..it has been known to the company for six months now…..even more disgusting than I first thought..
http://www.chinastakes.com/story.aspx?id=656

By: Pamela J. Betz-Baron

Pamela J. Betz-Baron — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:19:19 +0000

Yup, I’m “absolutely shocked”. :(

By: Nadine L.

Nadine L. — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:26:17 +0000

FDA’s Health Information Advisory 9/12/08

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/.....01883.html