A mother in the UK is asserting her hospitalized baby contracted meningitis from the consumption of tainted Nestl\u00e9 infant formula. An association between the child\u2019s illness and Nestl\u00e9 is not confirmed, but the baby was fed formula from a batch that has been recalled in more than 45 countries.<\/p>\n
Nestl\u00e9 issued the recall<\/a> on January 6 out of an \u201cabundance of caution\u201d due to the presence of cereulide, a bacterial toxin produced by Bacillus cereus, in arachidonic acid (ARA) oil used in its formula products. The company says the presence of cereulide is uncommon, and that it is working with its oil supplier to conduct a root-cause analysis.<\/p>\n At the time of the recall, no illnesses had been reported in association with the contaminated Nestl\u00e9 product, and there still have not yet been any cases of foodborne illness officially linked to Nestl\u00e9\u2019s recalled formulas. However, on January 17, the mother of a sick three-month-old told SkyNews<\/a>\u00a0that her baby fell ill due to being fed the now-recalled SMA infant formula, calling for an investigation into the cause behind her baby\u2019s illness. Her child was diagnosed with meningitis.<\/p>\n Nestl\u00e9 responded to SkyNews and the mother\u2019s assertions, saying, it is “categoric that there is no link between the recall and meningitis” and that “cereulide does not cause or transmit meningitis.\u201d<\/p>\n The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) told SkyNews that it has informed clinicians of the Nestl\u00e9 recall, and that, at present, there are no confirmed cases of foodborne illness associated with the recalled formula.<\/p>\n Cerulide is typically associated with vomiting, ocurring within 30 minutes to six hours after exposure, and secondary symptoms like diarrhea and lethargy.<\/p>\n Watchdog group FoodWatch alleges<\/a> that Nestl\u00e9 and the Dutch authorities knew about the cereulide contamination<\/a> as early as December 9, but the global recall was not announced by the company until January.<\/p>\n \n Looking for quick answers on food safety topics? <\/p>\n Ask FSM \u2192 Recalled formula products were sold in Central and South America; Asia, Oceania, and Africa; and Europe.<\/p>\n Although the current allegation of illness associated with\u00a0Nestl\u00e9 formula is unconfirmed, the tainted products were widely distributed and the potential for illness exists. This recall is the most recent high-profile incident raising questions about the safety of infant formula, shortly following a U.S. infant botulism outbreak linked to ByHeart formula<\/a>.<\/p>\n Update, February 6, 2026: UKHSA is now investigating 36 cases in which patients exhibited symptoms consistent with cereulide toxin poisoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother in the UK is asserting her hospitalized baby contracted meningitis from the consumption of tainted Nestl\u00e9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[126],"tags":[2140,1212,199,1170],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nestle","tag-foodborne-illness","tag-infant-formula","tag-nestle","tag-recall"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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