Contamination of powdered infant formula by Enterobacter sakazakii

Contamination of powdered milk formula with Enterobactersakazakii in recent decades came to the forefront experts on the food hygiene. This hardly detectable gram-negative bacteriacausing especially serious in newborns, in some cases deadly diseases such as are necrotizing enterocolitis, neonatal meningitis or necrotizing meningoencephalitis. Premature infants or infants with low birth masses are most vulnerable to foodborne intoxication E.sakazakii.Kotaminace E.sakazakii milk is not only developing countries but alsodeveloped countries high hygienic standard. To eliminate the risk of infection have been issued best practices of production and preparation of infant milk powderfor babies dairy nutrition. An example is the Directive of the European FoodSafety Authority (EFSA), the standard recommendation of the EuropeanUnion for the preparation of dried baby food and recommendation of the Scientific Committee for Food of the State Health Institute of the Czech Republic. Medical personnel preparing milk formula should be informed of the directives dairy food preparation process and should follow these procedures. is necessary educate health professionals about the fact that the packaging of powdered infant milk formulas not sterile. From this information is based on selecting the appropriate type of nutrition..