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The FDA said infant formula is safe after parents whose babies contracted botulism demanded answers. The response angered families who blamed contaminated formula for serious illness.
The FDA stated that infant formula is safe after parents whose babies contracted botulism demanded answers about contamination. The agency's assurance contradicts the parents' experience of their infants becoming seriously ill and the apparent connection to formula. The response has angered families affected by the illness.
When a regulatory agency tells parents their infant's illness wasn't caused by a product they used, while the parents have concrete evidence of harm, it creates a credibility gap. The FDA's confidence in the formula's safety may be statistically sound, but it dismisses the documented cases and leaves parents without answers. This is a situation where the agency needs to explain what went wrong in the cases that did occur, not just declare the product safe overall.
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