Comments on: Why Is Pesticide Used As An Ingredient In Infant Formula?

By: peter

peter — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 08:32:37 +0000

The body needs small amounts of metals such as iron, copper and zink for normal growth and health. Copper is used by at least 18 enzymes in the body. Copper is needed to help your body use iron. It is also important for nerve function, bone growth, and to help the body use sugar and oxygen. It is normally found in various foods such as grain, chicken, legumes, beans and nuts. Babies normally get it from the breast milk. To little copper will cause cooper deficiency which is associated with various symptoms including anemia, nerve dysfunction and low blood cell count. If you decided to make and sell a baby formula it would be incredibly irresponsible, and probably a crime not to include important minerals. The amounts needed for the body is at milligram levels per day. You are reading the safety sheet from a product containing pure copper sulfate! Eating pure metal is obviously toxic both for humans, plants and insects. Read the MSDS for pure iron salt (ferrous sulfate in the formula), manganese sulfate, potassium iodide etc and you will find similar language. Nobody is suggesting feeding a baby pure copper or copper salt with a spoon, but without the tiny amounts from breast milk or formula the baby would not stand a chance to grow up to become a healthy child.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:44:49 +0000

I like your reply smart guy. Internet high five.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:42:41 +0000

You can make your own formula, however it time consuming & there are a lot of not so common ingredients.

By: Bri

Bri — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:06:30 +0000

We got caught up in this new age way to feed our babies 25years ago. They’re doing ok but looking back I’d much rather my wife breast fed them.

By: Ranger Blade

Ranger Blade — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 03:20:28 +0000

Problem is that we do not know just how MUCH per serving of this Cupric Sulfate is in the formula.
Furthermore it seems many of these so-called “nutrients” are either extracted and concentrated or are chemically synthesized then re-added to things like formulas.

It seems that in the past people used canned milk, water and baby vitamins for formula. I don’t know….I think it is a good idea to actually read the ingredients and research them to find out exactly what they are instead of assuming that it is all safe or that all the ingredients are what they claim to be.

By: Natasha

Natasha — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 03:18:50 +0000

Solution: Ask your grandmother and great grandmother what they did when infant formula didn’t exist. Surely it must of been okay because you are here now and seem healthy. My question is why are corn syrup solids (another name for sugar) and sugar the top two ingredients? HUH?! How is sugar healthy for your infant? Is that why so many kids are coming down with diabetes or overweight?

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:49:16 +0000

I would suggest reading this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_in_health#Fetuses.2C_infants.2C_and_children

Babies on formula or cows milk often do not get enough copper. The cupric sulfate is a dietary copper supplement that is required for proper growth of infants.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:27:05 +0000

Typical arm waiving over something that in 100% pure form is toxic but has desired qualities in very tiny amounts. It also contains vitamin A. Vitamin A is extremely toxic in 100% pure form and too much will cause blindness.

By: cornishstu

cornishstu — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:41:59 +0000

Copper sulfate is essential to the human body to help promote normal growth and good health, it helps with bone development, nerve function and sugar metabolism. It is found in quite a few vitamin supplements. So assuming there is not vast amounts it should not be a problem, just as over dosing on water intake can be detrimental to ones health

By: gintaras

gintaras — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:31:49 +0000

Pretty ignorant article. Did you know that vitamins found in plants are really insecticides and fungicides as far as the plant is concerned. And that metallic selenium is toxic while selenium found in pasta (which is very high in this mineral) is actually healthy. The only thing questionable here is how much study and research you have done on this topic – seems like not much.