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Article: FDA warns about infection associated with powdered formula.(United States. Food and Drug Administration)(Brief Article)
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- Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA
- Article date:
- May 12, 2002
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2002 MAY 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hospitals should not feed powdered infant formula to most premature or sick newborns because the powder isn't sterilized and could cause a rare but dangerous infection, the U.S. government has warned.
This is not a risk for healthy, full-term infants, who are fine if their parents mix the powdered formula at home, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said.
"We need to be really clear we don't have evidence that full-term, happy babies at home are at risk here," cautioned FDA special nutrition chief Christine Taylor.
But neonatal intensive care units should try to use sterilized liquid formula ...