FDA inspectors knew about contamination at the Enfamil plant in November, three months before the recall.
It is also the fourth formula recall in the past year alone, more than all the formula recalls in the last decade combined, Politico said.advocate group STOP Foodborne IllnessIt strongly suggested that the “FDA continues to be reactive” and its “internal processes … have not been fixed, Baum said.Advocates were concerned that “lessons have not been learned” from the crisis last year that led to a nationwide formula shortage.
It was “a problem” that inspectors found the Zeeland plant failed to be “a clean and sanitary condition” in July but was allowed to continue operation with only limited follow-up inspections, scorcher said. However, an FDA rep insisted that the smaller recent recalls were actually a sign that it was intervening earlier to make sure the previous mass recalls were not repeated, sparking further shortages.
“Compared to the Abbott recall … the recent recalls are much narrower in scope, only impacting a few weeks of product with no additional facility closures,” the rep said.
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