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FDA finds Nestle Good Start Infant Formula lacks required nutritional value

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If you have a bottle-fed baby at home, take note: accord­ing to the FDA, Nes­tle Good Start infant formula’s nutri­tional con­tent doesn’t match up with what’s promised on the label. What’s more is that the amount of cal­cium and phos­pho­rous doesn’t meet min­i­mum FDA require­ments for infant for­mula sold in the US. The FDA came to these con­clu­sions after an inspec­tion of a Nes­tle facil­ity in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

The full let­ter from the FDA to Nes­tle is avail­able here. Nes­tle has yet to com­ment on the find­ings, but this isn’t the first strike they’ve had against them regard­ing infant for­mula. The Infant Feed­ing Action Coali­tion of Canada (INFACT) has long been involved in a boy­cott of Nes­tle prod­ucts due to pur­ported abuses relat­ing to sim­i­lar prod­ucts. For more infor­ma­tion regard­ing past claims of poor behav­iour on the part of Nes­tle, you can check out the INFACT Nes­tle boy­cott updates here.

187 Responses to “FDA finds Nestle Good Start Infant Formula lacks required nutritional value”

  1. Amanda

    Both my kids were too young to latch, so i ended up pump­ing for them both and feed­ing them through a bot­tle. Some­times i would have to give them for­mula a few times until i could get a good sup­ply of milk for them to eat. Kids are the most pre­cious gift in this world. My 3 year old is happy and healthy, with energy galore. Knew her ABC’s by 2 1/2, knew nurs­ery rhymes, counted to 10 and a whole lot more. Sure there IS a dif­fer­ence from for­mula to milk and milk is best, BUT Some peo­ple can’t breast­feed, it’s not their fault (although i know with some they would rather jsut give up) as long as the child doesn’t go hun­gry, that’s the main thing in my opin­ion. I pumped for 4 1/2 months for my daugh­ter, and then she was on for­mula full time, but she never went hun­gry, or needed to want for more food. My son is start­ing to do the same, he is only 2 weeks old, and while he is get­ting milk, i have to sup­plle­ment with for­mula to make sure he gets enough, and as long as he is happy and con­tent, to hell with what some peo­ple think!

  2. Hilario Fuhr

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  3. jody jody

    Clearly this Dr. Andreson, isnt a doc­tor, no doc­tor would make such com­ments, he would know for­mula has noth­ing to do with lazy moms.… Con­sid­er­ing it takes so much more time and prep to pre­pare for­mula rather than putting your baby to a breast..DUH!!! Sec­ond of all he would also know not every woman is capa­ble of breast feed­ing! A woman who has her breast removed can­not breast feed, a wom­an­with a birth defect affect­ing her breasts can­not breast feed ( and I do know a woman with such a rea­son) I am a moth­erof three for­mula fed babies.…. As I dis­cov­ered hav­ing my first baby I CANNOT phys­i­cally breast feed * yes i tried*
    My old­est daugh­ter was on enfamil my younger two was have been on good­start.… and as a mom * who cher­ishes and cares for chil­dren prop­erly* I would tell any­one to try good­start before any other formula!!!!!

  4. Melissa

    For those of you who have sat there and bashed for­mula feed­ing moms, maybe you should think about those of us moms who phys­i­cally cant breast­feed. I can­not breast feed because I dont pro­duce the hind milk that the baby needs…and yes this has been proven. All of my kids have been for­mula fed and are quite healthy! and even if a mom just chooses to for­mula feed that is their choice and you dont need to put peo­ple down for it.I feel sorry for your kids who have to grow up with judge­men­tal par­ents like yourselfs!!

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  7. sweet n sexy

    i guess the world is full of some really igno­rant women who really dont know much about any­thing. their heads are full of so much air so only crap an come out of thier mouths. i had my first baby girl and i expected to breast feed for over 6 months to a year and after 2 months my breast milk just stopped com­ing i tried pump­ing it after and not even a drip came out so then i have to give my baby for­mula coz i couldnt have her suck­ing and not get­ting any milk. dum­b­asses!!! u know ur selves

  8. cindy

    exactly.….i do know that there are some moms out­there who dont want to breast­feed coz thier wor­ried about hav­ing hangy boobs after…the ones that think like that are losers and also peo­ple have a right to make thier deci­sions on whether or not they want to breast­feed coz its sim­ply their choice to make but i say give the baby all the breast milk you can and if there no more after then you give them formula

  9. Stacey

    I live in Canada & am cur­rently feed­ing my baby Nes­tle Good Start with B. lac­tis & Omega 3 & 6. I ini­tially chose this for­mula because they sold it at the super­mar­ket close to my home. They also had Enfamil Low Iron, but then I read that Iron is essen­tial for an infants growth. I’m con­sid­er­ing chang­ing over to Enfamil with pro­bi­otics & Omega 3 & 6, but wanted to research how good or bad Nes­tle was first. I was shocked to see that in Amer­ica, in fell short, as I am an Amer­i­can. But after read­ing on, I found that it’s not as bad as they make it sound & other par­ents swear by it. As far as peo­ple insult­ing those that breast­feed, that is ridicu­lous & unnec­es­sary. I tried HARD to breast­feed. My baby picked up thrush from the hos­pi­tal & trans­ferred it to my breast, mak­ing it very painful to breast­feed. But I fought through the tears & did it any­way. I tried Gen­tian Vio­let for a week, which did not fully work. I tried Nys­tatin for a week, which did not fully work. & then I tried all pur­pose nip­ple oint­ment for a week, which actu­ally exac­er­bated the issue in both myself & my daugh­ter. As a last resort, I went on oral Flu­cona­zole for 2 weeks. This seems to have worked. I used Nys­tatin on my daugh­ter as that worked the best for her & she seems to be free of it now. But in the mean­time, my milk had dried up in my right breast to the point where my child was los­ing weight, so they said I needed to sup­ple­ment with for­mula. I was dev­as­tated & felt like I had failed. The day after I took my first pill for the yeast/thrush, I got a very bad breast infec­tion in 2 spots on my “good” breast that was pro­duc­ing milk. I had a high fever, chills, body aches, diar­rhea, engorge­ment & extreme pain in my breast no mat­ter what I did. I couldn’t even pick my baby up. My hus­band had to fully take over tak­ing care of her. I had to go on antibi­otics for a week. This was made me ulti­mately stop breast­feed­ing. I didn’t want to take the chance of breast­feed­ing while on these pre­scrip­tions, even though they say they are safe. Or risk con­stant rein­fec­tion between myself & my daugh­ter of the thrush/yeast. In the 2 weeks of med­ica­tion, my milk com­pletely dried up & I am now on for­mula. I WISH I could have breast­fed. If I didn’t have those 3 issues, I would have. I think every­one should at least try, but don’t make women feel guilty for choos­ing for­mula unless you are in their exact same sit­u­a­tion. Every­one has the right to choose. Shame on you for pass­ing judg­ment. Maybe YOU shouldn’t par­ent. I wouldn’t want a par­ent like you!

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  11. jessica

    ok i talked to my doc­tor and she said every for­mula that is on the shelves has to meet the canada­ian stan­dards for every­thing in the for­mula and the stan­dards are very high there­fore every for­mula has every­thing in it to help your baby grow and develop , sshe said dont even go out and buy name brand for­mula because non name brand is the same thing because they all have to meet the standards

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  20. Swats

    Tim­o­thy, Tamara, April…

    You said the moms who fed for­mula do not deserve kids.
    Please mind your word sbe­fore you say any­thing.
    I am an adop­tive mom. Induced lac­ta­tion did not work on me.
    My baby would be with me in the next month and she will be 12 weeks next month, and what do you sup­pose I should do. It’s in India, find­ing the lady who could help my baby by breast­feed­ing is impos­si­ble. For me any good For­mula that matches to breast milk would be like the great­est thing hap­pen­ing to my baby.

    You mean I do not deserve baby ?

    For God’s Sake– Don’t say this. I had waited for her for last 9 years. what if I do not lac­tate I m still going to give her the best, if it is a For­mula, I will go for it ..

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  34. Shawna A.

    Nestle’s ‘Good Start’ baby for­mula made baby twins both very sick and I am angry. THE DAY we took them off was the day they felt bet­ter. It needs to be PULLED OFF THE MARKET!! There is some­thing seri­ously WRONG with it!!!!!! I also heard that Nes­tle uses child labour when har­vest­ing the Cocoa beans in the for­eign coun­tries. What a DISGUSTING company.

  35. Dennyrob

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  36. Formulasucks

    if you breast­feed you do not have to worry about this. For­mula is like giv­ing your child fast food from birth… yackk

  37. Sherri

    I am for­mula feed­ing my son. I have many rea­sons for this of which “lazi­ness” is not one of them. But I am not going to list them because I don’t have to jus­tify my decision.

    Don’t feel guilty all you Moms who can not or choose not to breast­feed. I was for­mula fed in the 80s and I am slim with a gifted IQ. And for­mula is even bet­ter now than back then.

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