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Article: Prepared Baby Food Comes Under Fire
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 12, 1995
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Let's face it - given the choice, how many of us would go out of
our way to cheat a baby?
But according to Daryth Stallone and Michael Jacobson of the
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), the biggest baby
food manufacturers in the country are doing just that.
In their April 1995 report, "Cheating Babies: Nutritional
Quality and Cost of Commercial Baby Food" (CSPI, 1995), they indicate
that by the age of 12 months each of the 4 million babies born every
year in the U.S. has consumed (or otherwise disposed of) about 600
jars of baby food. You don't need a calculator to figure out that
these little jars are a big, big business in the United States (about
$1.25 billion per ...