The voluntary action affects less than 5 million Similac-brand powder formulas sold in the US, Puerto Rico, Guam and some Caribbean countries. The company said the products may contain a small beetle or larvae, which could cause stomach ache and digestion problems.
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There’s another health safety concern in China over infant formula. Chinese health officials say they are investigating whether hormones in dairy products are causing baby girls to develop breasts. Three baby girls from China’s Hubei province have started to develop breasts—many, many years too early. They’re between just four and 15 months old. China’s Health Ministry says it’s investigating whether it’s because they’ve all been drinking a particular brand of milk formula. Tests showed that the babies’ hormone levels exceeded those of typical adult women, according to state-run China Daily. The babies’ parents have been advised by their doctors to stop using the milk formula. The formula is produced by Synutra, a NASDAQ-listed company based in eastern Shandong province. On Tuesday, China’s Health Ministry said it had asked Hubei food safety authorities to investigate the cases. Since the initial three cases, there have been scattered reports of other babies around the country showing signs of sexual prematurity. Those infants have all been taking Synutra products. The dairy manufacturer insists its infant formulas are safe, saying it does not add hormones to their products. Despite the reassurance, the company’s shares plunged by nearly 27% on Monday. It’s Synutra’s biggest fall since 2008, when a massive tainted milk scandal embroiled the Chinese dairy industry.
@flowertanovic yeah, but who really knows if Enfamil’s facilities WERE any better….I can tell you this, I bet Enfamil had a fire lit beneath them to go through their facilites very closely right after it all went down with Similac problem. That’s how industry works. Whether Enfamil is really better, we may never know, and they may have just gotten lucky. Either way, it’s a disgrace.
@IHateRozzyTV open pathways into the warehouses may be to blame. Open garage doors, open entrance doors, a common poor alternative for a cooling system to be installed in the warehouses…they will charge an arm and a leg for this stuff, but invest little in protecting their facilities and the babies who are drinking this stuff. This is just a thought, and a possibility, not necessarily the answer.
This is unbelievable. The facilities where this stuff was produced should have been better inspected. I bet that the facilities has open pathways from open air that led into where this product was made. This is a major issue with many production plants, no matter what is made. Sometimes, you have plants that do not have ventilation to cool people during the summers, and garage doors/other doors are opened to cool down the warehouse. Big problem. Allows insects, rodents, birds to enter in!!
You’ll never see a recall on breastmilk!!!!
(And it is possible to lactate without ever having been pregnant, even men can lactate with the proper herbs and actions taken)
Thanks for your comments about breast feeding. My son is adopted so I can’t breast feed. If you want to be hateful go somewhere else.
@virtusmagna We don’t breastfeed because we don’t want to, it’s because the milk stopped at 1 month and the only other option was to continue on formula!
Perhaps president Hussein will nationalize them now.
Since I put my daughter (4 months) on Similac she’s been farting,
@flowertanovic If you want only the best you should breastfeed.
I agree!! I was doing the best thing for my baby by breastfeeding him but when he hit a growth spurt and was feeding ALL THE TIME I started him on similac. I’M PISSED!! BUG PARTS? YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!! This news makes me physically sick. How could they let this happen??
I agree!! I was doing the best thing for my baby by breastfeeding him but when he hit a growth spurt and was feeding ALL THE TIME I started him on similac. IM PISSED!! BUG PARTS? YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!! This news makes me physically sick. How could they let this happen??
my daughter was born in may of this year and we started her out on this powder similac shit. same exact syptoms as stated in this report. upset stomach and digestive problems. diarreah. these assholes need to be held accountable. but we all know they wont.
Made in China?
ridiculous
@brandonGCHACHU please check it!!!
I took my baby to the doctor 3 times they changed her milk to another similac and they are recalled as well. A little stomach discomfort my ass. My baby had the runs one minute then constipated the next along with being fussy and the doctor has been trying to figure out why for 3 months now!! I have 3 cans on the recalled list according to the similac website. please take note!!! 85458rb, & 88195rb6. I am so pissed!!!! they just realized they had bugs come on!!!!
I’m done with similac! There is NO room for error when it come to “our” children! I expect only the best when I pay those prices!!! Shame on them cutting corners!!!
I just opened a fresh can on Similac that WASNT on the recall list and found a mealworm in it! That tells me that it was probably old formula or been sitting in a warehouse forever before it was even packaged. Fuck Similac. My 5 year old was raised on Enfamil Lipil and it worked just fine and was cheaper.
This is BS and I am writing my representative, Abbott and the major retailers knew about it because I’ve had the hardest time finding NeoSure (for premies) formula for the last 3 weeks. I actually had to try multiple cities in order to get a few cans. This past Monday a new can label/presentation was rolled out, ahead of the recall, how convenient !!!
Lot #s 88164T20 and 88115T21 are being recalled too. They were bought from Target and other ones straight from the company.
I have been try all morning too and nothing, Minnesota
I cant even log onto the page through thier website to get the list of recalled formula. The similac.com/recall/lookup page is down! Nor can you get through on the phone, if it doesnt ring busy, a voice comes on telling you to call back because of high volume calls or go to the website, then hangs up on you! Where do they think i got the number to call?
very irresponsible fot Abbot to do a recall and not be preparred to handle the volume of customers concerned!
@virtusmagna It can cause digestive problems.
jew motherfuckers!
@virtusmagna – I’m sorry but you are dumb. There have been thousands of parents reporting that there children have been increasingly fussy and refusing the bottle, not to mention extreme crying…I feel sorry for your ignorance
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Oh my?
@mohaghanyfarrjones: very good ! You should go and live in China if you think the pot and the kettle are the same.
@giactaudoban Are you fucking kidding me? I’m an American & I know damn well that statement is “The pot calling the kettle black”
@chinkratforever Dumb bitch they put hormones in EVERYTHING here! (meat,milk,baby formula,etc) Girls have been going through pre-mature puberty for a long while in the US some as young as three! Go look it up you ignorant racist faggit.
Only difference is, over there in China the ones responsible were put to death.Over here NOBODY is doing a damn thing about it.
vile and disgusting chink rats!!!!! shame on you!!!!
Damn China
Chinese are subhumans, they are so greedy, killing even their own children for money.
Plus people who are smart don’t need to go around hurting or killing others, they should be able to make money using honesty, healthy, and green products.
eww!
We know that people can become rich using honesty and that there is no need to go around hurting or killing others. Only evil people are willing to hurt or kill others.
Let’s all hope that these are isolated incidents…
This is so sad, but we have evil people all over the world that don’t respect even little babies. That alone tells us, what they may be willing to do to the rest of us, in order to obtain financial power.
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Poor babies. The things evil greedy people are so willing to do to get rich.
fucking barbarians!!!