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Biotech / Medical : Martek Biosciences---- future biotech cash cow! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KAZHAK who wrote (173)	11/2/1998 12:32:00 AM
From: jeg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 258

The FDA or someone very like doesn't regulate DHAs but does regulate baby formula under some 1970's legislation (introduced in response to some scandal about sales of inferior formula in Africa) that I once read. The law mandates that baby formula be as close to mother's milk as possible, which is what hopes of having DHA required for pre-term infant formula, if not all formula, were built upon. Even the company isn't holding its breath for this to happen anytime soon, since the law in application depends much more on politics and special interest group lobbying efforts than on the actual science. But since DHA is sold in health food shops in other forms, e.g. in Martek's 'Neuoromins", if we knew how much to add, we could mix it into our own baby formula cocktails.