[dirtyp]

Up to 90 percent of the infant formula sold in the United States may be contaminated with trace amounts of melamine, the toxic chemical linked to kidney damage, according to recent tests. The FDA’s test results, which the agency hid from the public and only released after the Associated Press filed a Freedom of Information Act request, showed that Nestle, Mead Johnson and Enfamil infant formula products were all contaminated with melamine.

The AP is also reporting that Abbott Laboratories conducted its own in-house tests that detected trace levels of melamine in its formula products. Together, these infant formula manufacturers make about 90 percent of the infant formula sold in the United States.

Prior to these test results being made public, the FDA had published a document on its website that explained there was no safe level of melamine contamination in infant formula. Specifically, the FDA stated, “FDA is currently unable to establish any level of melamine and melamine-related compounds in infant formula that does not raise public health concerns.”

Once tests found melamine in U.S.-made formula products, however, the FDA changed its story. As of today, the FDA has now officially declared melamine to be safe in infant formula as long as the contamination level is less than one part per million (1 ppm).

Astonishingly: The FDA has no new science to justify its abrupt decision declaring melamine to be safe!
http://waronyou.com/...afe-for-babies/

[Bettawrekonize]

I also found this interesting

When the FDA discovered melamine in U.S. infant formula products, it made a conscious decision to withhold that information from the public. Instead, it called a teleconference with the infant formula manufacturers to warn them about its findings!

The truth about the melamine only became public after the Associated Press filed a Freedom of Information Act request, demanding the test results from the FDA. Absent that request, this whole issue would have continued to remain an FDA secret.

http://www.naturalne...ormula_FDA.html

Like I keep saying, there is a strong effort to censor information from the public. Chances are, a lot of information gets censored. As I've already said in Post 26, if people can't sue for problems caused by an FDA approved drug, a lot of important information that the public should know could be buried from the public. People should work to ensure this doesn't happen.

In fact, I find it suspicious that, after the Vioxx case, the FDA passed a law that says FDA approved drugs are barred from lawsuits. Perhaps someone didn't like the idea of getting caught after the Vioxx case so they pulled some strings to prevent such a thing from happening in the future.

http://forums.christ..._2/key_0/tm.htm