Mineral oil out of baby milk!
Milk powder for babies from Nestlé and Novalac is sometimes heavily contaminated with mineral oil. The aromatic mineral oils contained are suspected of causing cancer - and have no place in foods for newborns! Parents must be able to rely on the fact that these products are absolutely harmless to health.
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Laboratory tests revealed the presence of so-called aromatic mineral oil components in the milk powder, which are suspected of causing cancer. foodwatch called for Nestlé and Novalac to immediately recall the contaminated products and warn parents not to use them. Consumers can support this demand with a Online appeal support. foodwatch also called on retail chains and pharmacies to stop selling the products.
Three out of four products polluted
On behalf of foodwatch, three certified laboratories independently tested baby milk for mineral oils using different analytical methods. Of four products purchased in Germany, three were contaminated with aromatic mineral oil components (MOAH) suspected of causing cancer. Only in one product - Nestlé's infant milk "Beba Optipro 3, 800g, from 10 months" - were no MOAH residues detectable. The analyses showed that they were unpurified mineral oil components. According to foodwatch, they could have been transferred to the products from the tinplate cans used as packaging. So-called rolling and cutting oils are used in their production. foodwatch therefore advised parents not to feed their children any more baby milk from tin cans as a precaution until the manufacturers can prove that the products are uncontaminated.
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