Ashley Rodolph, a 26-year-old mother who lives in Texas, started buying ByHeart infant formula because she believed it was a safer, cleaner alternative to other baby products on the market.

But that assumption was dramatically upended this month. Rodolph learned that ByHeart was recalling its powdered formula because it is likely tied to an infant botulism outbreak that has sickened more than a dozen babies. She panicked, hoping the formula she’s been feeding her daughter for the past three months was not from a defective can.

“I don’t know if we’ve had those cans or not, and that was pretty terrifying to think about,” she said in a phone interview on Friday. “When you’re feeding your baby formula, you don’t think to keep the cans just in case of a recall.”

Ashley Rodolph and her daug

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