Melamine issue

Re: Melamine issue

• mfg102

  November 2008

  they don't give specific names, but do say three popular formula brands are affected

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• mfg102

  November 2008

  ok, apparently i didn't read far enough...

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  According to the FDA, data for tests of 77 infant formula samples showed a trace concentration of melamine in one product ? Nestle's Good Start Supreme Infant Formula with Iron. The FDA had two positive tests on one sample, with readings of 0.137 and 0.14 parts per million, FDA spokeswoman Judy Leon said Wednesday.

  An FDA spreadsheet the AP received Monday under its FOIA request attributed those results to Mead Johnson's Infant Formula Powder, Enfamil LIPIL with Iron. On Wednesday, Leon said the FDA's spreadsheet contained an error ? that the information provided to the AP had incorrectly switched the names of the Mead Johnson product with the Nestle product.

  Leon said Wednesday that a corrected spreadsheet shows that it was Mead Johnson's Infant Formula Powder, Enfamil LIPIL with Iron in which FDA detected an average of 0.247 parts per million of cyanuric acid, a melamine byproduct.

  Mead Johnson spokesman Pete Paradossi said the FDA had not informed his company of any of its test results until an emergency conference call Wednesday.

  The FDA said last month that the toxicity of cyanuric acid is under study, but that in the meantime, it is "prudent" to assume that its potency is equal to that of melamine.

  And while the FDA said tests of 18 samples of formula made by Abbott Laboratories, including its Similac brand, did not detect melamine, spokesman Colin McBean said some company tests did find the chemical. He did not identify the specific product or the number of positive tests.

  McBean did say the Abbott detections were at levels far below the health limits set by all countries in the world, including Taiwan, where the limit is 0.05 parts per million.

  The FDA tests also detected melamine in two samples of nutritional supplements for very sick children who have trouble digesting regular food. Nestle's Peptamen Junior medical food showed 0.201 and 0.206 parts per million of melamine while Nestle's Nutren Junior-Fiber showed 0.16 and 0.184 parts per million.

  The agency said that while there are no established exposure levels for infant formula, pediatric medical food ? often used in feeding tubes for very sick, young children ? can have 2.5 parts per million of melamine, just like food products other than infant formula.

  The head of manufacturing for Nestle Nutrition in North America, Walter Huber, said in an interview that the company took samples alongside FDA officials who visited a manufacturing plant, and that those samples showed similar results to what FDA found for the two pediatric medical foods. Huber added that Nestle didn't find cyanuric acid in any of the samples"

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• bananaQ

  November 2008

  According to the Enfamil website, there are NO traces of melamine in their product, and the FDA will be issuing a statement of it's erroneous finding.

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