Seema: There has been some publicity in recent years on the dangers of using powdered infant formula for babies under 1 month old. Salmonella and E. sakazakii are 2 bacteria common in the environment that are killed by pasteurization. Liquid formulas are pasteurized, powdered formulas are not. A few minutes perusing the FDA's recall website was enough to convince me that powdered formula should NEVER be put into ANY baby's mouth. After some searching I found a 35 page statement issued on the 9th of September, 2004 from the European equivalent of the USA's Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It was published in The EFSA Journal(2004)113, 1-35. The article also has a website: www.efsa.eu.int. When I showed this information to our neo. director, he didn't seem real concerned as we do not use powdered formula in the hospital. But what's in the free formula discharge bags, but a can of powdered formula? And how many of those moms go home and open that can and feed their under 1 month-old infants that powdered formula? Hopefully, mixed properly? There have been a few publicized cases of babies fed powdered formulas nearly dying from bacterial infections traced to use of powdered formulas. Pam Hirsch, RN,BSN,IBCLC Clinical Lead, Lactation Services Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Barrington, IL USA *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html