>Im always wondering why it takes them so long to find out and inform the public?
Problems with babies diets are hard to identify generally. Frankly I'm amazed this was identified with only 36 sick infants.
Consumers of baby formula are known for having a high baseline rate of spewing things out their holes and having a pretty high standard deviation on top of that rate. And of course the babies are getting older all this time and changing their diets and responses to things. So a large subset of parents are just gonna write it off as "I guess now that my baby is X months old this brand of formula gives him the shits/upsets their stomach." There's also likely confounding changes. And it's not like they can tell you "hey this tastes different than last week's". It's gonna take a while to ID that there's a problem and then actually correlate it to anything (consumption of a specific problem product in this case).
It's not like the kids are turning blue or some other "obviously not right" symptom. That'd be identified and root caused within the week of the first case.
Problems with babies diets are hard to identify generally. Frankly I'm amazed this was identified with only 36 sick infants.
Consumers of baby formula are known for having a high baseline rate of spewing things out their holes and having a pretty high standard deviation on top of that rate. And of course the babies are getting older all this time and changing their diets and responses to things. So a large subset of parents are just gonna write it off as "I guess now that my baby is X months old this brand of formula gives him the shits/upsets their stomach." There's also likely confounding changes. And it's not like they can tell you "hey this tastes different than last week's". It's gonna take a while to ID that there's a problem and then actually correlate it to anything (consumption of a specific problem product in this case).
It's not like the kids are turning blue or some other "obviously not right" symptom. That'd be identified and root caused within the week of the first case.