A mother from the South Valley of Texas filed a lawsuit against Abbott Nutrition after her baby died from a bacteria allegedly found in the formula milk she gave her little one.
In an interview with Telemundo, Cynthia Salinas, the baby’s mother, said that her son was born healthy on 14 July of last year, however, his happiness soon clouded over because the minor only lived 30 days.
“My son only drank formula and then he got sick, I took him to the hospital and he no longer left the hospital”, he explained.
The death certificate shown by attorney Douglas Dilley indicates that the little boy died of salmonella meningitis. “That bacterium damaged his brain a lot,” said Salinas.
The mother affirms that it was until several months after her son’s death that she found out that the same formula she gave her The baby would be withdrawn from the market.
After finding out, Salinas contacted attorney Douglas Dilley and they filed a lawsuit. The woman says she feels betrayed by the company.
“As many mothers have done, trust, that you go and you buy the product, that is, you read how it is prepared, you prepare it and you are going to give it to your baby, it is as if you went and bought a carton of milk, the same, but I did feel very betrayed about what happened to me baby”, he deepened.
On February 28 the FDA and the CDC informed Abbott Nutrition that they were conducting an investigation, and the company voluntarily withdrew powdered infant formula from the market.
“If there had been an alert at that time, maybe right now I would have my baby with me,” said Salinas in between sobs .
The woman blames herself for having given that food to her baby.
“They formulated a product that was distributed and that, knowing that it was possibly contaminated, and they did not give enough notice, so we think that this is It is something that causes responsibility to Abbott”, explained the lawyer.
While the company regrets what happened, but considers that the lawsuit has no merit.
Salinas requests that the company accept its responsibility.
“That they take responsibility, that they do what they have to do to put their maquiladora in order, that they put everything in order so that this does not happen again.”, he pointed out.
In The lawsuit reads that the FDA inspected the factory in September of 2021, finding five violations of federal food safety regulations
“This bacterium that attacked my child destroyed me, it didn’t just go to my child, too, I don’t have my baby anymore,” said the heartbroken woman.
Salinas says she is not seeking monetary compensation in this case. While her lawyer reported that she plans to file at least 5 more lawsuits against the company