Credit Where It Is Due on Formula Nutrients — and a Reminder That Fifty-Two Babies Were Paralyzed by Something Else

The Reagan-Udall Foundation’s September report, from a roundtable funded in part by ByHeart and the International Dairy Foods Association, found that there is no standardized method for detecting these spores in formula and that the indicator test the industry relies on can miss spores at levels high enough to make babies sick.