Berkeley Lovelace Jr. is a health and medical reporter for NBC News. He covers the Food and Drug Administration, with a special focus on Covid vaccines, prescription drug pricing and health care. He previously covered the biotech and pharmaceutical industry with CNBC.
Probiotics can be extremely risky for very young babies and have been linked to at least one infant death, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. The infant death linked to probiotics occurred this year, the FDA said. Since 2018, there have been more than two dozen adverse events in infants linked to the products, and the agency is investigating whether probiotics have contributed to other cases in babies. There are no FDA-approved probiotics for infants of any age, the agency said.
The FDA also said Thursday that it sent a warning letter to Abbott Laboratories on Tuesday about one of its products, Similac Probiotic Tri-Blend, which was being sold for use in preterm infants in hospitals. It contains three bacterial strains: B. infantis, S. thermophilus and B. lactis. It’s unclear whether the product led to any adverse events in babies, but Abbott agreed to discontinue sales and is working with the FDA to “take additional corrective actions,” according to the agency.
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