A five-week-old baby was taken to hospital after being fed formula which was almost nine years out of date. The parents bought 13 bottles of Aptamil baby milk at a branch of Dunnes Stores in Navan, a town in the Republic of Ireland, on February 8 of last year.
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Two days later, the father was feeding the baby and was concerned when they became sick and refused to drink any more. Noticing discolouration in the bottle, the father checked the packaging and realised it had a best before date of June 9, 2015. Another bottle they bought at the same time had a best before date of February 3 of last year, meaning it was five days out of date.
The baby was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda where it was kept overnight under observation, but didn’t require any treatment. A doctor contacted the Navan branch of Dunnes Stores to make them aware of the incident, and on February 14 a senior environmental health officer spoke to the shop’s deputy store manager.
A stock check had been performed, with eight bottles of baby formula with short best before dates removed from the shelves. The next day, Dunnes Stores head office was notified and an official investigation was launched by the HSE and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), the Irish Independent reports.
