Synthetic Preservatives in 'Organic' Baby Formula

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August 9, 2012 by Common Dreams

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Group Exposes Practice of Adding Synthetic Preservatives to

'Organic' Baby Formula

Cornucopia Institute files legal complaint against manufacturers

- Common Dreams staff

A non-profit consumer advocacy and research organization has filed a

formal legal complaint with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

against several infant formula manufacturers it says are adding

synthetic preservatives to certified organic infant formula.

The Organic Foods Production Act, passed by Congress in 1990, explicitly

bans synthetic preservatives in organic food., but the Wisconsin-based

Cornucopia Institute claims that a variety of producers have added more

than a dozen unapproved synthetic ingredients to organic infant formula

over the past five years....

When formula with Life'sDHA® first came on the market, the FDA received

numerous adverse reaction reports from parents and healthcare providers

who noted serious gastrointestinal symptoms in babies who had previously

tolerated formula without the Martek DHA and ARA oils....

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/Cornucopia's baby formula Buyer's Guide is available here

<http://app.streamsend.com/c/16781291/7020/yof7NEQ/9pOA?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2\

Fwww.cornucopia.org%2Fdha-guide%2F>.

The institute's comprehensive report on the subject, Replacing

Mother---Imitating Human Breast Milk in the Laboratory (pdf)

<http://app.streamsend.com/c/16781291/7022/yof7NEQ/9pOA?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2\

Fcornucopia.org%2FDHA%2FDHA_FullReport.pdf>,

is also available for download on the Cornucopia website.

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