MARTEK BIOSCIENCES, INFANT FORMULA AND THE TOXIC SOLVENT HEXANE:
A NATURALNEWS INVESTIGATION

THE TRUTH ABOUT INFANT FORMULA
By Mike Adams
NaturalNews
May 22, 2009

http://www.naturalnews.com/026315.html

EXCERPT:

The sad, disturbing truth about all this is that the infant formula industry has, for decades, engaged in highly deceptive marketing practices that sought to replace healthful human breast milk with harmful, factory-made infant formula products in order to generate profits.

These corporations can't make money off mothers' breast milk, but they sure can earn big bucks off a canister of processed, chemically-contaminated cow's milk proteins, high-fructose corn syrup and various chemical additives. Some of the most outrageous crimes ever committed against the people of developing nations, in fact, have been committed by the infant formula corporations who actively sought to teach uneducated women that "breast milk is bad" while insisting that "modern women feed their babies formula."

Martek's role in all this is murky: On one hand, the company is providing an oil that's theoretically good for children's health, but on the other hand, this oil is from an algal source and it's extracted using an explosive toxic chemical that undoubtedly causes harm to our environment. (Hence its designation as a Hazardous Air Pollutant by the EPA.)

Even if there's no detectable contamination of the finished DHA product with hexane, I still would not want to feed my baby an ingredient whose refining results in the release of toxic chemicals into the environment. Would you?

I don't trust any of the conventional infant formula companies. Even the so-called "natural" soy protein infant formulas may be contaminated with hexane residues -- see our previous report on hexane in soy protein here:

http://www.naturalnews.com/026303.html

If you're looking for truly natural, organic and environmentally-conscious infant formula products, look for the USDA Organic seal on the products (if you're in the U.S.) and really check out the companies behind these products. I know that Genesis Organics makes a great goat's milk formula. The Cornucopia Institute's "Replacing Mother" report also contains a wealth of additional information on this topic.

The bottom line? Do your homework before feeding formula to your baby. There's a lot of deception in the infant formula business (as 10,000+ families in China recently discovered with melamine), and it seems that the bigger the company, the lower the integrity of their products (although there are exceptions to this rule of thumb).

Whatever you do, don't automatically trust natural-looking labels and health claims. Some rather nasty infant formula products are, in fact, framed in precisely the language of "natural" and "organic," even when their ingredients are from questionable sources.

And above all, remember this: The best formula in the world is mom's breast milk! Absolutely nothing beats it. In fact, nothing even comes close. The most organic, high-integrity, nutrient-dense "formula" product in the world is but a pale shadow compared to the raw, living mother's milk produced by your own miraculous body (if you're a mom, that is).