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No, nanoparticles in baby formula will not harm your baby

  • Written by Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide
imageThe health scare surrounding nanoparticles might lead to people abandoning formula unnecessarily, with serious impacts on babies' health.from www.shutterstock.com

If you watched Channel 7 news this week, you would have learnt about a study commissioned by Friends of the Earth that found “potentially toxic” nanoparticles in Australian...

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