Politics Are Also Involved
Laurie True, the former executive director of the California WIC Association and current director of the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, has voiced concerns that baby food companies have been known to add ingredients that sound good in order to raise prices, but lack research to find out if these ingredients benefit our children’s health. “These include additives like DHA/ARA, ‘probiotics,’ and others, which are increasingly showing up in infant formula, baby food, juice, milk, eggs, bread, and other WIC-allowable items,” True wrote in The Hill.
