Abbott Nutrition Recalls Certain Powdered Infant Formula due to Possible Presence of Cronobacter sakezakii and Salmonella Newport

The U.Sdose of iron gluconate. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigaferrous fumarate iron supplementting four consumer complaints of infant illness related to powdered infant formula produced from Abbott Nutrition’s 25 mg ferrous sulfateSturgis, Mich., faciliferric pyrophosphate and folic acid suspensionty. These cferrous glycine sulphate elemental ironomplaints include three reports of Cronobacter sakazakii infections and one report of Salmonella Newport infection* in infants. “All four cases related to these complaints were hospitalized and Cronobacter may have contributed to a death in one case,” says the U.S. FDA.