sakazakii and powdered infant formula, is there a risk?
If so, identify the populations of infants at risk: identify infants at risk including consideration of factors, such as the extent to which immune status, age and/or general health status, etc., may impact on the susceptibility of infants to E. sakazakii infections. For Charge 1, Question 1, the Subcommittee was asked to come to consensus. The committee voted unanimously to the following answer to question 1: Yes, there is a risk. Populations at risk are preterm infants born at less than 36 weeks gestational age up to a post-term age of 4 to 6 weeks, immunocompromised infants at any age, and term infants hospitalized in level 2 and level 3 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Every effort should be made to avoid feeding powdered infant formula to these at-risk infants. Use of powdered products for these at-risk infants should be considered only when no appropriate liquid product is available. There is probably a low, but as yet unquantified, risk in healthy, term infants, which cann
