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The applicable standards are as follows (N.B. some contamination is
allowed, because if handled correctly, these levels should be below
those which will produce clinical symptoms of illness. I don't know
if the research supports that or not. But these safeguards are what
keeps our 6,000 deaths from infant formula/year from being 600,000 or 6
million. So while not absolute safeguards, they still qualify as
safeguards of a sort. In other words, infant deaths are kept at a
level the American public will accept. Bear in mind that the deaths
are also due to the inherent flaws in using artificial "infant formula"
as a substitute for real [human] milk, which accounts for most
illnesses, and also to consumer mishandling.):
Methods in the Official Methods of Analysis of the AOAC or the FDA,
Bacteriological Analytical Manual (BAM) specified for infant formula
currently in effect on the date of solicitation shall be used. Upon
microbiological analysis, the test results of powder infant formula
shall meet the following values:
Salmonella - Negative
Listeria monocytogenes - Negative
Coliforms - Not more than 10 per gram
Fecal coliforms - Not more than 3 per gram
Escherichia coli - Not more than 3 per gram
Coagulase Positive Staphylococcus aureus - Less than 3 per gram
Bacillus cereus - Not more than 50 per gram
Aerobic Plate Count - Not more than 500 per gram
[ COMMERCIAL ITEM DESCRIPTION: FORMULA, INFANT. The U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) has authorized
the use of this Commercial Item Description.]
And yes, the manufacturer gets to conduct its own analyses, so it is
technically possible to cheat. The probability of making up false
reports I cannot speak to.
Arly Helm, MS, IBCLC
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