So in addition to potentially lethal bacteria, some formula milks also contain dangerously high levels of aluminuim.
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1308517/Health-fear-Up-40-times-aluminium-formula-milk-breast-milk.html
Just what I needed to read with a 6 week old DS who will not breastfeed fulltime (uses me as a dummy and then screams for a bottle as well) as I was in such agony with bleeding nipples that I had to run out to Asda in tears in the early hours of the morning to get him bottles and formula and of course since then he prefers bottles!
Of course the article says that there is less aluminium in the powder but I have been giving DS the ready made cartons to avoid the risk of the bacteria in the bloody powder!!
AIBU in being fucking furious that formula milk manufacturers cannot provide a product that will not potentially harm my baby? Apparently the aluminuim residues come from the packaging. Why can't they sell it in glass jars then? I am positive that people would not mind paying extra for that.
Oh apparently they've know about this for years so at least my other 3 DCs who were all on FM at some point have all been potentially poisoned too not just this one FFS.
Where are the government is all this? I know they are promoting breastfeeding but some people can't and have no option but to buy formula. Why are these companies not more tightly controlled?