Article: Dairies Get an `F' for Vitamin D Content; Studies Find Huge Disparities in `Fortified' Milk, Baby Formula

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

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