{"id":15142850,"date":"2026-06-05T22:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/baby-botulism-outbreak-fda-still-doesnt-know-cause-or-how-to-prevent-it\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:08:09","slug":"baby-botulism-outbreak-fda-still-doesnt-know-cause-or-how-to-prevent-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/baby-botulism-outbreak-fda-still-doesnt-know-cause-or-how-to-prevent-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby botulism outbreak: FDA still doesn&#039;t know cause\u2014or how to prevent it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration this week posted what critics call an &#8220;underwhelming&#8221; epilogue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/outbreaks-foodborne-illness\/post-outbreak-response-activities-clostridium-botulinum-illnesses-associated-consumption-powdered\">the devastating outbreak of botulism in babies<\/a>, which was linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2025\/11\/formula-with-cleanest-ingredients-recalled-after-15-babies-get-botulism\/\">spore-contaminated formula made by ByHeart<\/a>. Despite clear tracking of the contamination, the regulator still doesn&#8217;t know how the bacteria arrived in the formula\u2014or how to prevent it from happening again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The FDA&#8217;s investigation into the root cause is ongoing with a focus on ingredients,&#8221; the agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>In the void, three companies at the center of the investigation are left pointing fingers at each other, with none publicly taking responsibility for the contamination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2026\/06\/baby-botulism-outbreak-fda-still-doesnt-know-cause-or-how-to-prevent-it\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2026\/06\/baby-botulism-outbreak-fda-still-doesnt-know-cause-or-how-to-prevent-it\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2026\/06\/baby-botulism-outbreak-fda-still-doesnt-know-cause-or-how-to-prevent-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tech &#8211; Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, the three companies involved all point the finger at each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15142852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15142850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1.png",1084,648,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-300x179.png",300,179,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-620x371.png",620,371,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-768x459.png",768,459,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-940x562.png",940,562,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1.png",1084,648,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1.png",1084,648,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-998x648.png",998,648,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-670x446.png",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1.png",1084,648,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-510x510.png",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-160x160.png",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-24x24.png",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-48x48.png",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-96x96.png",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-150x150.png",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15142850-screen-shot-2025-11-11-at-7.10.57-pm-1084x648-1-300x300.png",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/tech\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15142850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15142851,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142850\/revisions\/15142851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15142852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15142850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15142850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15142850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}