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On Sunday, the US Meals and Drug Administration warned shoppers of doable bacterial contamination of Reckitt/Mead Johnson’s Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Powdered Toddler Formulation Merchandise. The specialty system is a hypoallergenic toddler system utilized by infants allergic to cow’s milk.
The producers voluntarily recalled 675,030 cans of the system on December 29 after the FDA was notified that exported system examined optimistic for Cronobacter sakazakii by the Israeli Ministry of Well being. The Cronobacter micro organism may cause uncommon however probably lethal infections in newborns. It’s current within the atmosphere however can be recognized to infect powdered toddler system. The recalled cans of system had been distributed within the US and extra product exported.
The company notes that no sicknesses have been reported up to now and that a lot of the product distributed within the US has possible already been consumed.
“All product in query went by means of intensive testing,” the corporate said in its press release, “and examined unfavourable for the micro organism.”
The FDA says shoppers with Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Toddler Formulation Powder with the beneath batch codes mustn’t use the product and and throw the system away instantly. Shoppers can contact Reckitt/Mead Johnson Vitamin for a refund.
• ZL3FHG (12.6 oz cans)
• ZL3FMH (12.6 oz cans)
• ZL3FPE (12.6 oz cans)
• ZL3FQD (12.6 oz cans)
• ZL3FRW (19.8 oz cans)
• ZL3FXJ (12.6 oz cans)
The merchandise have a UPC Code of 300871239418 or 300871239456 and “Use By Date” of 1 Jan 2025.
Though this product is a specialty toddler system, there are substitute toddler formulation accessible and the company suggests customers work with their well being care suppliers to discover a substitute.
Cronobacter was linked to the nationwide system scarcity in 2022, however the company doesn’t imagine this voluntary recall may have a major impression on system provide.
On December 14, the Israeli Ministry of Well being notified the FDA that product examined on the Israeli border as a part of routine sampling examined optimistic for the micro organism. Consulting with the FDA, Israel initiated complete genome sequencing of the merchandise and confirmed the presence of the micro organism on December 28.
On December 18, the FDA instantly commenced a for-cause inspection at Reckitt/Mead Johnson Vitamin’s Zeeland facility which included testing of each system samples in addition to environmental sampling. The FDA’s inspection is at present ongoing, however all testing up to now has been unfavourable for Cronobacter.