{"id":10747,"date":"2026-02-07T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/britain-recalls-baby-milk-contaminated-with-heat-resistant-toxin\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:01:19","slug":"britain-recalls-baby-milk-contaminated-with-heat-resistant-toxin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/britain-recalls-baby-milk-contaminated-with-heat-resistant-toxin\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain recalls baby milk contaminated with heat-resistant toxin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Danone announced the recall of additional batches of Aptamil and Cow &amp; Gate infant formula after dozens of infants showed symptoms suspected to be linked to poisoning from a toxic substance, leading some cases to be hospitalized.  <\/p>\n\n<p>This decision came after British health authorities reported that 36 infants across <a href=\"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/official-warning-issued-over-respiratory-virus-in-the-uk\/\">the United Kingdom<\/a> showed symptoms consistent with exposure to the ciguatoxin following the consumption of <a href=\"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/milk-contamination-in-france-claims-two-infants-lives-sparks-panic\/\">contaminated baby formula<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/uk-health-security-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The UK Health Security Agency<\/a> received 24 reports in England, 7 in Scotland, 3 in Wales, one in Northern Ireland, and one in the British Crown Dependencies.    <\/p>\n\n<p>Symptoms included nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, with several children requiring hospital treatment.  <\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.food.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The UK Food Standards Agency<\/a> responded quickly, issuing an urgent warning to parents and caregivers to immediately check batch numbers and stop using any affected products. <\/p>\n\n<p>Nestl\u00e9 had previously recalled several SMA products due to the same contamination issue.<\/p>\n\n<p>Authorities confirmed that all other batches of these brands not affected are safe to use, noting that companies have stopped using ingredients from the affected supplier. <\/p>\n\n<p>Health officials indicated that the contamination source was a shared external supplier in China, and the toxin is believed to originate from arachidonic acid (ARA) oil, a natural omega-6 fatty acid optionally added to infant formula.  <\/p>\n\n<p>The toxin is known to be highly heat-resistant, meaning that boiling water or preparing the milk does not eliminate it, and it has been linked to food poisoning cases from contaminated rice, pasta, or dairy products.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danone announced the recall of additional batches of Aptamil and Cow &amp; Gate infant formula after dozens of infants showed symptoms suspected to be linked to poisoning from a toxic substance, leading some cases to be hospitalized. This decision came after British health authorities reported that 36 infants across the United Kingdom showed symptoms consistent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[398],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-10747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-uk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10748,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747\/revisions\/10748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}