The kosher baby-food formula linked to three deaths in Israel is being pulled from store shelves in Russia. In a letter sent Wednesday throughout Russia, public health official Gennady Onischenko urged local doctors to make sure that soy-based milk substitutes produced by or under control of the Israeli company Remedia and the German company Humana are removed from stores until the circumstances of the scandal are thoroughly investigated.
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