Third Child Ill as Mead Johnson Says Tests Show Formula Safe
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A third infant tested positive for the Cronobacter bacteria that killed a newborn in Missouri and spurred the removal last week of baby formula from store shelves. A U.S. probe is continuing.
The baby, from Oklahoma, has been hospitalized and was given a different brand of formula than used in two previously reported cases of the infection, said Chris Braden of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mead Johnson Nutrition Co., the world’s leading seller of children’s formula, said Dec. 25 that its tests showed no bacteria in a batch of formula used by the Missouri baby who died.