Earth’s Best® is
owned by The Hain Celestial Group, a multi-million dollar public
corporation that owns numerous organic and natural food brands.
Earth’s Best® would
not share the sourcing information of the soy products used in its
soy-based infant formula. If you enjoy Earth’s Best® products, we
would encourage you to contact the company and ask them to
participate in the Cornucopia research study and scorecard.
Earth’s Best®
organic infant formula contains several hexane-extracted ingredients,
including soy lecithin and DHA oil and ARA oil.
IMPORTANT:
If you are giving
your baby infant formula, and he or she experiences adverse reactions
such as explosive diarrhea, projectile vomiting, excessive gas or
other gastrointestinal symptoms (and switching formula has not
brought relief), your baby may be reacting to the algal DHA
(Crypthecodinium cohnii oil) and fungal ARA (Mortierella alpina oil)
oils in infant formula including Earth’s Best®, Similac®
Organic and Vermont Organics®. Baby’s Only®
does not contain these potentially
harmful additives, and may relieve your baby’s symptoms.
Please consult your pediatrician.
For more information
on hexane-extracted DHA and ARA oils in infant formula, see The
Cornucopia Institute’s report “Replacing Mother – Imitating
Human Breastmilk in the Laboratory.” Available for free download at
http://www.cornucopia.org/replacing-mother-infant-formula-report/
If your baby
experienced adverse reactions to algal DHA and fungal ARA in infant
formula, please file an adverse reaction report with the FDA’s
Medwatch program
(https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/medwatch-online.htm),
and send a copy of your report to cultivate@cornucopia.org
so that The Cornucopia Institute can document these side effects.