To explain, I received the email below informing me of the Similac recall which just so happened to affect my 2 week supply from Costco of baby formula. So, on Thursday after Andy left (who was in town and stayed for a dinner which included chicken wings), Matt, me and the girls ventured to Target to stock up on new baby formula. We returned to find pickles, tomatoes and onions spewed throughout our family room, and in turn discovered my missing 1/2 of a hamburger and a completely empty styrofoam container which had once held the chicken wings. We searched for the bones, called the expert of dogs-eating-stuff-they-shouldn't, Mark, whose dog Ella last week consumed 81 hershey kisses and 22 cupcakes, and called the emergency vet. Mark came over and helped in the search, and the vet was telling us that the bones could cut Reagan's intestines and other things I won't go into detail about, and that we could either bring her in for an x-ray or 'wait and see.' If you know Matt and I you know we are more of the 'wait and see' type, and truthfully I was more concerned with the possibility that I may have been serving my girls a platter of beetles 3 times a day. We waited to see, and luckily the next morning Reagan showed no sign of abdominal pain, and for the past 2 days has been pooping bones. We were told to make sure of this. And we (actually Matt) has done the investigative work.
Back to the Similac recall. Here is the email I received:
Dear Lauren,
We take our product quality and safety responsibilities very seriously. As such, we have initiated a proactive, voluntary recall of certain Similac®-brand, powder infant formulas that did not meet our quality standards.
We are recalling these products following an internal quality review, which detected the remote possibility of the presence of a small common beetle in the product produced in one production area in a single manufacturing facility. Please be assured that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that while the formula containing these beetles poses no immediate health risk, there is a possibility that infants who consume formula containing the beetles or their larvae, could experience symptoms of gastrointestinal discomfort and refusal to eat as a result of small insect parts irritating the GI tract. If these symptoms persist for more than a few days, a physician should be consulted.
Do they really think that their chosen adjectives of "remote possibility", "small common beetle", "one production area" and "single manufacturing facility" will make people turn a blind eye at the words "BEETLES AND THEIR LARVAE?"
Dear Similac, as a mother who received this email and all products she was giving her children were on the list of recalls, I can answer that quite matter-of-factually, NOOOOO!!! Gross, disgusting, spat, barf, puke, blagghhhh.....
Unlike Reagan, we have not seen any evidence of the girls having consumed such (gulp) beetle parts.
