Late last month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent warning letters to three different baby formula companies expressing concern over the manufacturers' practices for handling contamination in their products.
"You did not establish a system of process controls covering all stages of processing that was designed to ensure that infant formula does not become adulterated due to the presence of microorganisms in the formula or in the processing environment," the FDA wrote in its letters to ByHeart Inc., Reckitt/Mead Johnson Nutrition, and Perrigo Wisconsin. The FDA also requires the companies to respond within 15 days with "the specific steps you have taken to correct the stated violations, including an explanation of each step being taken to identify violations and make corrections to ensure that similar violations will not recur."
