According to press reports, the Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it was notified of one more infant death in January potentially related to Abbott Laboratories’ baby formula and the agency has started an
Continue Reading The death of another baby linked to Abbott infant formula apparently under investigation
The infant formula plant that just reopened June 4 after being closed for almost four months because of food safety problems is closed again, this time because of flooding.
Abbott Nutrition’s production plant in Sturgis
Continue Reading Floodwaters force infant formula plant to close down again ‘for a few weeks’
A member of Congress and consumer groups are expressing shock and asking hard questions about reports of additional infant deaths attributed to baby formula from Abbott Nutrition.
Following a report on Wednesday citing a Food
Continue Reading U.S. representative livid about new information in infant formula crisis
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Editor’s note: This was originally posted by eFoodAlert and is reposted here with the permission of the author. To view the document from the FDA, click here.
Between December 1, 2021, and March
Continue Reading Nine baby deaths reported to FDA during Abbott Nutrition investigation
Abbott Nutrition has resumed operations at its baby formula plant which was shut down by the FDA in mid-February because of dirty conditions and a link to a cronobacter outbreak that saw two babies die.
Continue Reading Abbott resumes production of infant formula under strict eye of FDA
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Report not to issue until 2023? Hey, OIG, see below, we need answers sooner and I will give you a head start.
HHS, OIG posted this morning:
The Federal Food, Drug, and
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: OIG to determine whether FDA followed the inspections and recall process for infant formula in accordance with federal requirements by 2023?
Cronobacter has been detected in an infant milk formula sent to Moldova.
The National Food Safety Agency (ANSA) in Moldova ordered the recall of two lot codes of Numil initial infant milk formula that was
Continue Reading Cronobacter found in Numil infant formula
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This week there were three hearings in Washington D.C. addressing the infant formula shortage and the reasons behind it. FDA officials were pressed about the failure of leadership and disorganization of the
Continue Reading STOP petitions government to add cronobacter to Nationally Notifiable Disease List
“We know we let you down.”
The senior vice president of Abbott Nutrition — the manufacturer of infant formula whose plant closure amid a food safety investigation has left the country in dire straits with
Continue Reading Abbott’s senior vice president grilled by members of House subcommittee
Describing inspection findings at an infant formula plant as “shocking,” the head of the FDA on Wednesday told a U.S. House panel that the formula maker had failed, but admitted that the agency also could
Continue Reading FDA leader says agency could have done a better job with investigation into infant formula plant
