They blow'd up good, they blow'd up real good!
Posted on 04/03/2009 7:24:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A chemical used in explosives, fireworks and rocket fuel has been found in powdered baby formula in the United States, the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) said.
In "little-noticed findings," researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 15 brands of baby formula contained perchlorate, an oxidizer in solid fuels used in explosives, fireworks, road flares and rocket motors, the EWG said.
"Studies have established that the chemical is a potent thyroid toxin that may interfere with fetal and infant brain development," it said.
The EWG said the CDC study's findings raised "new concerns about perchlorate pollution, a legacy of Cold War rocket and missile tests."
The CDC study, which was conducted in 2006 and published last month in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, said perchlorate could inhibit the absorption of iodine by the thyroid and lead to growth and developmental problems in infants.
For the study, researchers tested samples of baby formula which they had picked up in a local shop.
The two most tainted brands, both cow's milk-based formulas with lactose, had a nearly 90-percent share of the US powdered baby milk market in 2000, the report found.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
More crap from China? Maybe the missing link to explain autism.
the guy is grandstanding!
Perchlorate is used thousands of times more in cleaning solvents, carburator cleaner and dry cleaning!
I’m sure it contains all sorts of things.
This article tells us NOTHING.
The way the article is worded is a little extreme.
Sodium chloride, used to make a deadly World War One chemical weapon and also a component of clandestine methamphetamine recipes has been found in human blood, mixed with dihidrogen monoxide, used in nuclear reactors and pesticides.
Frankly, you’d have to be nuts to use ANY powdered baby formula, or any kind of powdered milk.
Although I must say this sounds worse than I thought.
The Gaza connection.
Nobody raising these alarms is saying how MUCH there is. This is doggone suspicious in a day where we have the equipment to smell a fart in Maine from California.
More ChiCom contaminants?
Wouldn't be surprised if it's determined to be deliberate; the Kremlin and its democrat operatives here in the US have been conspiring to dumb down the American public for decades.
I use whey protein powder daily. Until about a year ago, at least one brand said “Wisconsin milk.” Then the company showed up at a trade show in China. Next thing you know, they only say “Distributed in the USA.” I’m quite sure we’re getting Chinese junk in infant formula and in adult products too.
Here’s where the community organizer in chief could make a positive difference. Investigate. Test independently at small labs. Organize the hell out of food safety agencies.
Probably a lot of folks who voted for him expected him to do such things.
More crap from the self-appointed guardians of our well being.
“The sample size of the study was too small to allow generalizations to be made about entire brands of formula, they added.
The study did not name any of the formula brands that were tested.”
LOL!
Perchlorate gets into drinking water everytime the Highway Patrol uses a flare at an accident. Unfortunately we can measure perchlorate at the part-per-trillion level, so there is perchlorate in “drinking water” everywhere.
“Another hazard is the mixing of lactose, a sugar, with the powerful rocket fuel perchlorate, leading some to fear that baby formula may detonate near the child..” [I made that up]
You left out the harmful effects of the unsequestered carbon. It’s bush’s fault.
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So let that be a warning to you, folks...if you have a bouncing baby, don’t bounce it too hard.
I don’t think this is funny.
Our babies deserve better.
“Hell, my neighbort twins blew up yesterday.”
Fuel-oxidiser explosion fueled by perchlorate!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=oc_nnnBmMbM
I think you’re thinking of perchloroethylene, also known as tetrachloroethylene, not perchlorates, which have a much more restricted use.
Interestingly, perchlorates can be formed naturally via a number of processes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchlorate
Cheers!
...or the suicide bombers?
Cheers!
“I don’t think this is funny.
Our babies deserve better.”
Did you know that perchlorates exist in nature?
“at how many ppb?”
Or ppt, with the ion chromatographs we have now.
Not to mention that the health effects are VERY easily treatable and apparently fully reversible.
Pretty much a non-issue if someone is given medical care when they get sick.
Use iodized salt. That fixes the problem.
People have been getting upset about perchlorates ever since the Greens started trying to eliminate 4th of July fireworks. They searched for health effects until they found a minor inhibition of iodine uptake.
Then, once people started researching it, they found perchlorates at very low levels in lots of places- it occurs naturally!
You think they're gonna spring for the good stuff rather than more marketing materials?
Cheers!
Up there with CO32 as a pollutant. Not to mention the (literally!)deadly dihydrogen monoxide.
lol probably all got laid off after Alar got banned and this is the only gig they could get.
Doesn’t everything exist in nature? Otherwise, where would the stuff have come from.
The important info is what were the levels in the formulas, and what level is tolerable for human infants.
No, the Oaf in Chief could never do anything sensible with efficiency.
The author completely ignores the fact that moms mix the power with dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical that has killed countless human beings since the dawn of man.
I read recently that dihidrogen monoxide has a pH that actually is higher than concentrated sulfuric acid, yet there are no restrictions on bringing it into a nursery full of kids.
Found this, but still think we need more info..
http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-care-hospitals/20090403/CL9455903042009-1.html
They blow'd up good, they blow'd up real good!
and then they put it in a plastic bottle made with biphenol A to boot. the deck is stacked from the gitgo..
I was breast fed. whew.
Good one?
Did you know that on 15 April 1912 dihydrogen monoxide killed 1,517 people?
not sure on levels, I’ll see if I can dig up some data..
No, not everything exists in nature. DDT, for instance, is only man-made. Methoxychlor, too. Plutonium, technetium, latex paint are not found in nature.
But if something is found in environmental samples naturally, then it probably means that we have adapted to it, it’s not too poisonous.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7057-perchlorate-found-in-breast-milk-across-us.html
So if we start a program to remove perchlorate from human breast milk to keep our kids safe, how much would it cost and who would do it and what penalties would you assign to a mom who fed her baby contaminated breast milk? Then we move on to cow’s milk and Ben and Jerry’s.
And I bet nothing was done to solve the root cause. The cover up continues!
Good link, thanks jacquej!
Here in the South Bay, a couple rocket testing sites have been used for years, perc had spread thru the local aquifers, a series of wells have been installed to try and retard the plumes underground, I haven’t followed the progress much of late so I am not sure how they are doing, but ..
Let me guess... made in China!
You couldn’t be more WRONG. REPUTABLE infant formula is safe and nutritious.
“Frankly, you’d have to be nuts to use ANY powdered baby formula, or any kind of powdered milk.”
call me nuts then.
0af in chief? Yes he is.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!
CDC Study Finds Rocket Fuel Chemical in Baby Formula
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=cdc-study-finds-rocket-fuel-chemical-in-baby-formula
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study (pdf)
http://www.propublica.org/article/jes200918a.pdf
I know a little something about pumping contaminants out of ground water. Not an easy thing to accomplish.
Not to mention it is naturally occurring.
Still, that’s not something you want in your baby formula.
Score one for breast feeding.
The NAS says 20 parts per billion perchlorate in drinking water is safe. The Department of Defense makes a case for 200 parts per billion being safe. If the amounts being found in the formula were more than 20 ppb, you can be sure the author would have included that information. He didn't. The chemicalphobes and toxic terrorists ignore this information for a reason.
Plutonium, an element, is indeed found in nature. Just not in a pure form.
Some of its ores are concentrated enough naturally to be harmful.
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