Dr. Evaristo A. Ballesteros Tribado is a professor and researcher in the Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Jaén. In April 2011, he published in the 'Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry' a study called 'Simultaneous determination of 20 active pharmacological substances in cow's milk, goat and human breast milk ...'
A Moroccan Hispanic team of scientists led by Dr. Ballesteros, they found a lot of chemicals thanks to high sensitivity test in milk samples. These substances are commonly used to treat diseases in animals and people. The team analyzed more than 20 samples of cow's milk purchased in Spain and Morocco, along with other samples of goat's milk, as well as breast milk. 'According to the breakdown published in the dissemination magazine, cow's milk contains anti-inflammatory drugs, niflumic acid, mefenamic acid and ketoprofen - commonly used as analgesics in both people and animals'.
While the doses are too small to have an effect on any beverage, this study once again demonstrates and shows how artificial chemicals are currently immersed throughout the food chain.
In cow's milk the hormone 17 beta estradiol has also been found (an estrogen), of which three millionths of a gram per kilogram was detected. And on the other hand, naxoprene, ibuprofen and other analgesics were found in breast milk, along with triclosan, antibiotics and other hormones. Niflumic acid is the toxic substance with the highest presence in goat's milk.
They also told in Quo Science that these types of drugs have also been found in other points of the 'food chain'. In 2010 scientists at the University of Portsmouth found that the fish were contaminated with the antidepressant Prozac. This medicine reaches the sea through the sewer system and manages to fiddle with the brain of the fish, according to their researchers. Even caffeine has its stellar appearance, which is released into our waters even after the wastewater treatment process has passed.
Given this information, and against the evidence that anything we eat may be contaminated, it is worth rereading the recommendations made by Evidence in Pediatrics to protect us.
It goes without saying that breast milk remains the best main food for children up to one year, and that WHO recommends prolonging breastfeeding up to two years. We are surrounded by toxic substances, and in spite of that any processed food can be more contaminated than the mother's milk.
