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Why Is Pesticide Used As An Ingredient In Infant Formula?
Why is cupric sulfate -- a known herbicide, fungicide and pesticide -- being used in infant formula? And why is it displayed proudly on product labels as a presumably nutritious ingredient?
Used to kill fungus, aquatic plants and roots of plants, parasitic infections in aquarium fish and snails, as well as algae and bacteria such as Escherichia coli, cupric sulfate hardly sounds fit for human consumption, much less for infants.
Indeed, infants are all too often looked at as "miniature adults" from the perspective of toxicological risk assessments, rather than what they are: disproportionately (if not exponentially) more susceptible to the adverse effects of environmental exposures. Instead of reducing or altogether eliminating avoidable infant chemical exposures (the precautionary principle), the chemical industry-friendly focus is always on determining "an acceptable level of harm" – as if there were such at thing!
It boggles the imagination how cupric sulfate ended up in infant formula, as well as scores of other consumer health products, such as Centrum and One-A-Day vitamins?
After all, it is classified, according to the Dangerous Substance Directive (one of the main European Union laws concerning chemical safety), as "Harmful (Xn), Irritant (Xi) and Dangerous for the environment (N)."
Moreover, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires that the warning signal "DANGER" appear on the labels of all copper sulfate end-products containing 99% active ingredient in crystalline form.
The Material Safety Data Sheet for Cupric Sulfate clearly states, in 'Section 3: Hazards Identification," that it has the following adverse health effects:
"Potential Acute Health Effects: Hazardous in case of skin contact (irritant), of eye contact (irritant), of ingestion, of inhalation.
Potential Chronic Health Effects: CARCINOGENIC EFFECTS: Not available. MUTAGENIC EFFECTS: Mutagenic for mammalian somatic cells. TERATROGENIC EFFECTS: Not available. DEVELOPMENT TOXICITY: Not available. The substance may be toxic to kidneys, liver. Repeated or prolonged exposure to the substance can produce target organs damage."
In 'Section 7: Handling and Storage" the following precautions must be taken:
"Do not ingest. Do not breathe dust. Wear suitable protective clothing. In case of insufficient ventilation, wear suitable respiratory equipment. If ingested, seek medical advice immediately and show t he container or the label. Avoid contact with skin and eyes. Keep away from incompatibles such as metals, alkalis."Cleary we have a problem here. Cupric sulfate is used in most mass market infant formulas. Even Similac's "sensitive" formula contains the ingredient:
Could this be one reason why infant formula has been linked to over 50 adverse health effects, both short and long term, in infants given it in place of breast milk? The common explanation/claim is that infant formula isn't intrinsically harmful, rather, breast milk and breastfeeding is just healthier. I believe this perspective in untenable, given the problems with cupric sulfate, and dozens of other questionable ingredients being used in these products, such as petroleum-derived and chirally inverted dl-alpha tocopherol (synthetic vitamin E), zinc sulfate, sodium selenate, manganese sulfate, etc.
For additional research on the inherent problems associated with the use of chemicals in infant formula, take a look at our evaluation of another Similac product.
Or, take a look at the "Organic" infant formula by Earth's Best:, which is surprisingly not that much better.
Related Article
Additional Research
- Cupric Sulfate – Pesticide Information Profile
- Cupric Sulfate – Toxicology Research on GreenMedInfo.com
- Blog: Infant Formula For Disaster
- Blog: Is Your Multivitamin Toxic?
Sayer Ji is the founder and chair of GreenMedInfo.com. His writings have been published in the Wellbeing Journal, the Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, and have been featured on numerous websites, including Mercola.com,NaturalNews.com, Infowars.com, Care2.com. His critically acclaimed essay series The Dark Side of Wheat opens up a new perspective on the universal, human-species specific toxicity of wheat, and is now available for PDF download.
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I was explaining to some youths the other day how roaches and rats cannot pass gas. Thus the reason rats are bloated after eating poison is supposedly because the poison makes them thirsty so they seek a water source, drink the water, get gas and since their body is not built to expel it like ours, they die bloated.
We discussed how in the past, people would put out some Coca Cola (the kind under prior formulas; the formula has changed since then). The rats and roaches would consume it, and thus again could not burp or expel gas and died.
So I see this information about infant formula and I wonder what is the purpose this serves.
Who does it serve to tell someone this and put 'FEAR' into their heart about what their infant consumes.
It is known if you tell someone a lie long enough or often enough it becomes their truth.
There is a Cosmic liability to 'poison' those that cannot consent to be poisoned.
If the infants being born are to be future slaves, it serves the system to grow as many as they can, like those fields of intestate infants in the movie The Matrix.
If the property of some chemical is deadly to one life form like a Christmas poinsettia is deadly to pets if eaten, it doesn't automatically convey into deadly for all.
Remember they tell you not to give Chocolate to your dog, and if you dog ever tasted chocolate, they will LOVE it.
Remember discernment is more that accumulating information, it's about how does having that information affect you, to what benefit is it being revealed, if the information is true for one thing is it true for all?
Vinegar kills plants, but people put vinegar on their food.
Discernment is more than reading or research, it's an inner knowing.
We are of the Earth. Everything she is made of, we are made of. Everything she is made of is of the Universe, so we are of the Universe.
What we believe is true, is what we experience. That's the secret. If we attempt to avoid the experience, we will experience it. If we want a different outcome for the experience, do something different to effect a different outcome.
Bully hits you and you hit him back, two parties in agreement to have a fight.
Bully hits you and you stand there peacefully, he's going to war with a peaceful inhabitant and is at fault.
See it.
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