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Had this chemically assayed and it was overlimit of Arsenic and Iron
Product is poison and Nestle doesn't care. Buyer Beware.
I realize that if I'm not saying the truth that this statement would be libelous. Only problem is I have proof. And if they go to court with me on this, I'll win, so they won't and they know it because I've given them my proof. Here's the story
I had been drinking this product for years, quite a lot each day (hot cocoa, drinking, casseroules). I generally liked it but I got a bad batch and may have caused me severe neurological and mental problems as I started to get symptoms of arsenic poisoning and/or iron poisoning. I finally realized one day that my hot chocolate was tasting metallic. I suspected my water, my plumbing fittings, my steel thermos-mug. So I changed the variables, used distilled, differnet cup, still metallic taste. I went to the store and bought another batch of NIDO, compared the two by taste and sure enough, it was metallic. So I quit drinking all nido and nestle products and took a high b12 shot and went on a fast. I was back to normal within days. I cannot of course prove NIDO's product was the cause of my symptoms, only that quitting them and taking b12 resolved the problem. I could have had a b12 deficiency.
However, I had sent the sample of NIDO whole milk powder that I bought from walmart into a chemical analysis company a few states away. They sampled it for all the heavy metals they listed. It came back with arsenic and extremely high iron, well over the amount on the reported nutritional facts by 100x. The arsenic was I believe over 2x the upper limit of arsenic for rice (a known high-arsenic food / bioaccumulator) set by the UN.
Clearly they have a problem with quality control that they are not addressing or they are willfully poisoning folks, the latter of which makes sense if you know who own Nestle.
At any rate, I reported it to Nestle to institute a recall. They took a very defensive stance as if I was attempting to sue them. I was not. If I were to sue them, I'd want lifetime Nido, if anything but it better not have any arsenic in it! I have proof of this assay. My interpretations may be incorrect but I've had it casually verified by a scientist in terms of ppm and I can only make assertions based on the guidelines set by the US FDA, USDA and the codex alimentarius of the UN / WHO, which serve the basis of my claims.
January 2016 · Grocery and Gourmet Food · verified purchase