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Non-profit research institutions in the United States "Environmental Working Group," said Day 3, the United States Department of Health and Human Services under the Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently found that the U.S. market on 15 brands of infant milk formula containing rocket and missile fuel used in a chemical - perchlorate.

The research institutes said in a statement the same day, the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention report of the study published in the United Kingdom last month, "Radiation and Environmental Science Journal of Epidemiology", but "did not arouse the attention of many people." According to the report disclosed that the U.S. market on 15 brands of infant milk formula containing perchlorate, one of two best-selling brand of formula milk derived by 2000, the two brands of infant formula in the United States occupy a total of milk powder market share of 87%. But the report did not specify exactly which brands of milk powder in 15 of these questions exist.

The statement said that the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the researchers detected the type of milk including cow milk and sugar, such as four kinds of soybean milk powder, and found that 15 brands involved in all four kinds of milk powder containing perchlorate, perchloric acid the highest salt content in cow milk sugar.

The statement pointed out that during the Cold War are perchlorate rocket and missile fuel commonly used chemical substances, "a variety of studies have shown that perchlorate is a powerful thyroid toxin, which may affect fetal and infant brain development." The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the report warned that once the above-mentioned containing milk perchlorate and "even with only trace perchlorate" against the water, the perchlorate content of one of more than the United States Environmental Protection Agency finds that the safety standards. However, the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention in this study did not analyze the perchlorate on the human body, there is little harm.

U.S. media quoted the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a spokesman for the words, because only a few random checks, so it is difficult to determine, in the same formula in a variety of brands, whether it is a common perchlorate content over safety standards .

"Environmental Working Group," Prior studies have found that the United States the existence of at least 28 state drinking water systems contaminated by perchlorate situation. Environmental Protection Department of the United States has about 4,000 inspections of public water supply system, resulting in around 160 of the drinking water supply system detected perchlorate, one of more than 31 safety standards.