Cupric Sulfate: What’s In Your Baby Formula? Why Is Pesticide An Ingredient?

. From Monsanto, to pesticides and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), a large amount of evidence has surfaced to show us that some ingredients we are ingesting into our body’s can be harmful and hazardous. It is completely unnatural and is something that the human body doesn’t require nor benefits from. If you’re looking for evidence, we provide a multitude of it. Feel free to browse through our health, science/tech, multimedia, and alternative news sections for more information on GMOs, Monsanto, and pesticides. We provide sources and links to studies at the bottom of each article. You can even use the search bar. What about infant formula? Why is Cupric Sulfate in infant formula? Cupric Sulfate is classified as harmful, irritant and dangerous for the environment. It’s used as a herbicide, fungicide and pesticide. It’s also known as Copper sulfate, and it’s produced industrially by treating copper metal with hot concentrated sulfuric acid. Cupric sulfate is not even hidden, it’s displayed on product labels without any type of warning or information about it. It’s there for us to see, we just never question it, look it up and bring it to the attention of the masses. It’s used to kill fungus, aquatic plants and roots of plants, parasitic infections in aquarium fish, it hardly sounds fit for human consumption, and these are infants we are talking about. If we assess formula by its results, rather than by whether its ingredients matched a specific list, we would have to conclude that there has never been an infant formula that would “satisfy,” by itself, the nutritional requirements of infants during the first months of life (1). NPIC report on Cupric Sulfate (read full report HERE (2)) Humans: Animals: It’s very clear that cupric sulfate should not be in infant formula, and everything else it’s put into. It’s classified as harmful and dangerous for the environment by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Even the material safety data sheet lists the following health effects: Potential Acute Health Effects: Hazardous in case of skin contact (irritant), of eye contact (irritant), of ingetion, of inhalation. Potential Chronic Health Effects: Carcinogenic Effects: Not available. Mutagenic Effects: Mutagenic for mammalian somatic cells. Teratrogenic Effects: Not available.

The substance may be toxic to kidneys and liver. Repeated prolonged exposure to the substance can produce target organ damage. You can read that entire report HERE(3) The USDA organic label is supposed to protect the consumer against GMOs and avoidable chemical exposures, but the sobering fact is that USDA-certified infant formula manufacturers are not only being allowed to use a pesticide in their formulas, but are advertising it as a ‘healthy’ mineral to unsuspecting consumers (4) Below are the ingredients for Similac Sensitive forumla, Cupric Sulfate is present in other major baby formula’s,like Nestle. You can view their ingredient list here, it’s pretty much the exact same. It makes absolutely no sense at all for this pesticide to be put into infant formula, as you can see above it is clearly dangerous to consume! Sources: (1) http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Ekent/NutritionalAdequacy.pdf (2)http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/cuso4tech.html http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/why-pesticide-used-ingredient-infant-formula http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/usda-organic-formula-contains-ingredient-worse-gmos http://www.similac.ca/sites/default/files/Similac%20for%20Babies%20Sensitive%20to%20Lactose%20EN.pdf (3)http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9923598 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22419779 http://www.nestle-baby.ca/Templates/Product.aspx?NRMODE=PublishedNRNODEGUID=%7B62AA8276-9095-4338-83A0-F6A0BC3DCDC0%7DNRORIGINALURL=/en/products/formula/starter/goodstart_probiotic.htmNRCACHEHINT=Guest .

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References:

• http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/cuso4tech.html
• http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9923598
• http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/usda-organic-formula-contains-ingredient-worse-gmos
• http://www.nestle-baby.ca/Templates/Product.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID=%7B62AA8276-9095-4338-83A0-F6A0BC3DCDC0%7D&NRORIGINALURL=/en/products/formula/starter/goodstart_probiotic.htm&NRCACHEHINT=Guest
• http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Ekent/NutritionalAdequacy.pdf
• http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/why-pesticide-used-ingredient-infant-formula
• http://www.similac.ca/sites/default/files/Similac%20for%20Babies%20Sensitive%20to%20Lactose%20EN.pdf
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22419779