The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has said that Nestlé is extending its recent product recall in Ireland to include an additional batch of its SMA First Infant Milk.
This recall has been initiated following the European Food Safety Authority's recommendations on analytical testing, which resulted in Nestlé determining that this batch is non-compliant and needs to be recalled.
The FSAI is advising parents, guardians and caregivers who may have the recalled products at home not to feed them to their infant or young child.
There is no indication that this incident has resulted in illness in Ireland, the FSAI said.
The product and batch being recalled is SMA First Infant Milk in a packaging of 800g with the batch code 53390346AB. The expiry date of this batch is December 2027.
The FSAI is advising parents, guardians and caregivers who may have the recalled product at home not to feed it to their infant or young child.
If no symptoms are displayed, nothing further needs to be done. If a parent, guardian or caregiver is concerned about the health of their infant or young child, they should contact a healthcare professional.
The FSAI advises that cereulide toxin may be pre-formed in a food and is extremely heat resistant. Consumption of foods containing cereulide toxin can lead to nausea and severe vomiting. Symptoms can appear within five hours. The duration of illness is usually 6 to 24 hours.
This recall is associated with a contaminated raw ingredient which was also implicated in the recent recalls of some batches of infant formula and follow-on formula.
An ingredient, ARA oil, which was manufactured in China, was contaminated with cereulide and added as an ingredient in base powder used to make infant formula and follow-on formula. Cereulide is a toxin produced by some strains of the bacterium Bacillus cereus, which can cause food poisoning.
