Some Utah moms are scrambling as a baby formula recall is expanding, leaving many shelves empty and no clues as to when it will be restocked.
Jody Evans said her seventh child, Daniel, recently switched to formula. She tried breastfeeding her son, but he wasn’t keeping the milk down.
Then Evans learned about the massive recall and found out she had given her son some formula from a recalled batch. The recall follows reports of five babies falling ill, four with Cronobacter infections and one with Salmonella, with two of the babies dying.Baby aisles at the store are empty of this powdered formula, and instead filled with flyers alerting parents aware of the recall.“So, I just thought, 'Okay, what groups have a ton of moms and maybe they’re not using the formula in their pantry?'” asked Evans.
“[Daniel] was the first I did formula for, and then it was just kind of scary to all of a sudden not have any breast milk available, and this is the formula that keeps him happy, and it was gone,” said Evans.