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Article: Dairies Get an `F' for Vitamin D Content; Studies Find Huge Disparities in `Fortified' Milk, Baby Formula
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- The Washington Post
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- April 30, 1992
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If you can't trust milk, what can you trust?
Though it may seem like the ultimate honest beverage, chances
are that only one out of three containers of milk actually contains
the amount of vitamin D "fortification" listed on the label,
according to reports published today in the New England Journal of
Medicine.
For infant formula, the likelihood that the vitamin content
matches that described on its label is even less, according to one
study.
In the vast majority of cases, the disparity poses no risk to
drinkers, although in a second study, the researchers found eight
people in Massachusetts who became ill from excessive amounts of
vitamin D in milk. All were customers of the same dairy, ...