According to a recent CNN report, a former employee at infant formula manufacturer Abbott Nutrition filed a whistleblower complaint about the company’s plant in Sturgis, Michigan, back in February 2021. This was a year before Abbott shut down its facility to address contamination issues. The whistleblower was terminated in August 2020.
After making changes to better address any contamination issues with its baby formula products, Abbott recently re-opened operations at the Sturgis, Michigan plant.
After receiving the whistleblower’s complaint, Abbott filed a formal response in April 2021. In October of the same year, the whistleblower filed a complaint with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the complaint to the public later that month.
The Washington Post reported that the 34-page complaint alleged a “host of unsanitary conditions” at the Abbott infant formula factory, including lax practices associated with clean-in-place procedures, failure to take corrective measures to reduce product defects, deficient testing procedures, lack of traceability of its products, and falsification of records.
On multiple occasions, for instance, the whistleblower stated that Abbott knowingly falsified records by leaving out certain information. This included understating or inaccurately describing events to limit or avoid oversight, shipping packages with fill weights lower than...
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