A company at the center of a multi-state baby formula recall due to a botulism bacterial contamination said Monday that all lots of its formula may be contaminated.
ByHeart said in an update on its website that it conducted testing on 36 samples from three different lots of its baby formula, showing that five samples contained the type of bacteria that can lead to the potentially deadly infection in infants.
“Based on these results, we cannot rule out the risk that all ByHeart formula across all product lots may have been contaminated,” the company wrote in the update.
At least 31 babies in 15 states who consumed ByHeart formula have been sickened in the outbreak that began in August, according to federal and state health officials. In addition, other infants who drank ByHeart formula were treated for botulism in earlier months, as far back as November 2024, although they are not counted in the outbreak, officials have said….