JacobHeitmann wrote:And it's funded by one of the biggest diary companies in asia:
http://goo.gl/GwDfPLIt's kinda annoying that Katz is promoting this study. Why is he doing that? Is it a "well done" study without any bias in the construction of the study?
Thanks for your help!
Not only is it FUNDED by one of the biggest dairy companies in Asia, but it's actually WRITTEN by the biggest dairy company in Asia!!! This is worse than funding bias, it's actually an advertstudy!
IM Szeto, Y-J Li and Rv Hekezen are employees of Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd.
I also wouldn't call this company the epitome of corporate responsibility. These quotes from Wikipedia. Why, oh why, did Dr. Katz tweet this article?
Yili was implicated in the milk scandal after tests found its infant formula contained melamine. Yili recalled tainted milk powders and apologised to the public.[6] Shares in other listed dairy companies fell strongly the next day.[7] On discovery that their liquid milk was also contaminated, Yili was stripped of its status as a 'Chinese national brand'.[8]
Hong Kong and Singapore authorities ordered a recall of Yili products after 8 out of 30 tested positive for melamine.[9] Mengniu, whose product tested negative in Hong Kong government tests, and Yili liquid milk was immediately withdrawn by supermarket chains after tests showed that contaminated samples had been found on the mainland.[10]
As of 18 September 2008, no one is believed to have been made ill because of the tainted yoghurt.[11] However, Hong Kong doctors found a stone in the left kidney of a three-year-old girl who had been drinking the contaminated Yili milk for 15 months.[12]
2012[edit]
In June 2012, Yili recalled some of its baby formula products after an "unusual" level of mercury was found by China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ).[13]