Enfamil Maker Cited by FDA
The Food and Drug Administration has cited infant formula maker Mead Johnson with failure to comply with packaging requirements and has given the firm 15 days to take corrective action.

November 01, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Food and Drug Administration has cited infant formula maker Mead Johnson with failure to comply with packaging requirements and has given the firm 15 days to take corrective action.

Mead Johnson changed the packaging of some of its infant formula product but failed to provide details of those changes to the FDA before sending the products to market, the FDA said.

The new packaging is a plastic tub and lid assembly in which pouches of its Enfamil Premium Infant, Enfamil Gentlease, and Enfamil A,R, infant formula are contained.

Mead Johnson markets 70 products in 50 countries around the world and has offices in the Netherlands, Thailand and Mexico.

The FDA sent the reprimand saying Mead Johnson was in breach of food contact regulations after carrying out an eight-day investigation at the company's plant in Indiana last month.

A Mead Johnson spokesman said the tubs and lids are made with FDA-approved materials and that the company was in the process of responding to the FDA.

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