The Food and Drug administration has advised people in the United States not to buy or use the bay formula brought from China. This is now illegal in the U.S. after the health officials stated on Thursday that a tainted formula killed a baby. The FDA also warned that some formula from China might be found in the U.S. markets to sell it to Chinese consumers, even if its sale it’s forbidden.

The FDA asked the consumers not to buy the baby formula if they see it inside markets. They also added that they had their concerns about “some supplies of infant formula” which might have been brought to the country illegally.

This “may be in specialty markets that serve the Chinese community,” the deputy director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Janice Oliver, stated during an interview. Even if there is no evidence that some baby formula can be found in the markets inside the U.S., the FDA officials found it in 2004 on the shelves of an ethnic
retailer.

According to Reuters, even the Chinese authorities blame the milk-based baby formula to have killed one infant and causing kidney stones in dozens of others. The China’s Ministry of Health said that the contaminants have been found in the milk formula released by Sanlu brand. They were asked to recall milk formula before August 6.

Janice Oliver stated that this Chinese formula might be mixed with melamine, which is the contaminant found in pet food ingredients from China. The melamine mixed with pet food ingredients caused the deaths of hundreds of cats and dogs during 2007.