Warning for all parents using formula!!

[James Deuce]

No, not gullible at all. Merely looking to keep up their respective circulation and viewing figures. The journo's will know exactly what the real reasons behind the press release from whichever rival company are, but have decided the public are too dense to pick it up.

Cynical would be the word.

This is how a great deal of hard news works.

Please avoid using the words "news" and "journo" in the anything like the same context in future please. There are no journalists involved in the "news" business.

[Hitcher]

What the "media" fail to grasp at times are the subtleties and shades of grey that seem to have evaporated in our harsh black-and-white post-9/11 world. The first victim of "war" is the truth, and all that.

In the case of this infant formula "scare" the issue is solely one of non-compliance: an ingredient is not on New Zealand's list of approved ingredients, so the regulators have no choice but to withdraw the product. There is no evidence to suggest that the products in question are unsafe or dangerous. But a regulator cannot exercise discretion -- the ingredient is either approved or it isn't. A question that the media should be asking is when a determination will be made on the problem ingredient so that importation of these products may proceed.

[sunhuntin]

Quite simply it's dangerously irresponsible reporting for some people.

The pre-biotics in the toddler version of the formula they are talking about have kept No. 2 son out of Hospital for 6 months. We believe we have clear proof that the additives that are being bitched about are life savers for a small percentage of the population.

20 Hospital admissions in the first 3 years of life. We switched to Karicare Gold as a nutritional supplement after investigating the constituent ingredients and we've had 1 admission this year. Put simply, we've changed his immune system response to certain stimuli.

my neice is 18months. mum says shes on one of the formulas in question. it certainly hasnt given her the runs! she was recently constipated, but ive put that down being fed nothing but crap [her main drink is powerade! who knows what she eats!!] she guzzles water whenever she comes here... poor tyke.

[Drum]

my neice is 18months..........her main drink is powerade!.........

Please tell me you're joking.

[MisterD]

In the case of this infant formula "scare" the issue is solely one of non-compliance: an ingredient is not on New Zealand's list of approved ingredients, so the regulators have no choice but to withdraw the product. There is no evidence to suggest that the products in question are unsafe or dangerous. But a regulator cannot exercise discretion -- the ingredient is either approved or it isn't. A question that the media should be asking is when a determination will be made on the problem ingredient so that importation of these products may proceed.

Interesting that this announcement by the FSA was made on the same day that the gummint announced that it was shelving the legislation that would have allowed them to ban the product....if I was Karicare, I'd sue them for everything I could.

The pediatrician on the gogglebox this morning said that over ten million babies worldwide were fed this stuff with no problems, and some bunch of numpty NZ beaurocrats reckon they can't approve it for NZ. WT and indeed F?