The Food and Drug Administration reportedly investigated more child deaths due to contaminated baby formula from Michigan's Abbott plant than previously known.
Breast milk banks face a surge in demand as an alternative to baby formula. A supply chain backlog has made it hard to get bottles and caps to suppliers on time.
The Washington Post, citing newly released documents, said that the agency investigated reports that as many as nine children had died since March 2021. and two were sickened after consuming formula that contained the bacterium cronobacter sakazakii. The complaints were first reported by eFoodAlert, and obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
Yury Navas, 29, of Laurel, Md., kisses her two-month-old baby Jose Ismael Gálvez, at Superbest International Market in Laurel, Md., Monday, May 23, 2022, while looking for formula.described twenty-five incidents categorized as "Life Threatening Illness/Injury" and eighty instances of "Non-Life Threatening Illness/Injury."
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