A position statement on kidney disease from powdered infant formula-based melamine exposure in Chinese infants

Craig B. Langman; Uri Alon; Julie Ingelfinger; Märta Englund; Jeffrey M. Saland; Michael J.G. Somers; Bruder F. Stapleton; Nelson Orta Sibú; Pierre Cochat; William Wong; Felicia U. Eke; Lisa Satlin; Isidro Salusky

doi:10.1007/s00467-009-1129-6

A position statement on kidney disease from powdered infant formula-based melamine exposure in Chinese infants

Craig B. Langman, Uri Alon, Julie Ingelfinger, Märta Englund, Jeffrey M. Saland, Michael J.G. Somers, Bruder F. Stapleton, Nelson Orta Sibú, Pierre Cochat, William Wong, Felicia U. Eke, Lisa Satlin, Isidro Salusky

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Abstract

Melamine, a man-made non-nutritive substance containing nitrogen, can falsely elevate measures of protein content in foodstuffs. Several manufacturers of powdered infant formula in China apparently added melamine to raise the measured protein content and thereby exposed thousands of infants and young children to very high levels of melamine. Such exposure resulted in cases of acute kidney failure and nephrolithiasis. This Editorial from members of the world-wide Pediatric Nephrology community provides a common-sense approach to the care of infants who may have been exposed to powdered infant formula in 2007-2008.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1263-1266
Number of pages	4
Journal	Pediatric Nephrology
Volume	24
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-009-1129-6
State	Published - 2009

Keywords

Acute kidney failure
Infant nutrition
Nephrolithiasis
Poisoning

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Langman, C. B., Alon, U., Ingelfinger, J., Englund, M., Saland, J. M., Somers, M. J. G., Stapleton, B. F., Sibú, N. O., Cochat, P., Wong, W., Eke, F. U., Satlin, L., & Salusky, I. (2009). A position statement on kidney disease from powdered infant formula-based melamine exposure in Chinese infants. Pediatric Nephrology, 24(7), 1263-1266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-009-1129-6

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A position statement on kidney disease from powdered infant formula-based melamine exposure in Chinese infants

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