It’s hard to imagine a more important area of food safety than baby formulas. Bad enough when a foodborne illness hurts anyone, but when infants are affected, the repercussions are so much worse. In 2008, contamination of infant formula affected 300,000 babies in China, resulting in several deaths. A 2012 salmonella outbreak in France led to criminal charges. And in the U.S., a bacterial contamination in 2022 caused a serious nationwide shortage of powdered formula. 2022’s baby formula shortage stemmed from a product recall by a Michigan...

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