PARENTS and doctors in China fear that hormones in milk powder they fed their infant daughters have led the babies to develop breasts.
Medical tests indicated the levels of hormones estradiol and prolactin in three girls, who were aged four to 15 months and who were fed the same baby formula, exceeded those of the average adult woman, the state-run China Daily reported.
“The amount of hormones in the babies definitely means there’s a problem,” Yang Qin, from the childcare department at the Hubei Maternity and Children’s Hospital, was quoted as saying. “The parents should stop using the formula to feed their children and the powder should be analysed.”
Local food safety authorities refused a parent’s request to investigate the formula made by Synutra, saying they did not conduct tests at consumers’ behest. Synutra insisted its products were safe. “No man-made hormones or any illegal substances were added during production.”
Wang Dingmian, the former chairman of the Guangdong dairy association, told the China Daily the hormones could have entered the food chain when farmers reared the cattle.
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