As much as we want to believe that all of the products we buy are safe, sometimes companies and certain individual manufacturers are willing to cut corners in order to turn a profit, no matter the personal cost to the customer.
You would think that this kind of thing only happens with illegal products like drugs, but unfortunately, that isn't always the case.
A frightening new scam sees people replace baby formula with flour and then return the bottles to stores for cash, allowing for other customers purchasing the tampered products and feed them to their babies, Newsweek reported.
However, there have been multiple recent reports of babies becoming ill after ingesting the "formula", leading to a heightened sense of fear among parents.
She knew something was wrong after the infant spent an entire day vomiting and passing gas.
"I realized something's definitely weird," she said, "The color was different, the texture was different."
"That's when it hit me," she said. "I saw how it clumped up and I'm like, 'Oh my God, my daughter's stomach is just the same or worse.'"
What appears to have happened is the formula somehow ended up available for purchase again after it had been returned for cash by someone who emptied its contents and filled it with flour.
They stated that they are investigating the incident and added that stores don't put products back on the shelf once they have been returned.
In June, Tampa Bay-area mom Ashley Frydrych made a Facebook post warning other mothers to check their formula before using it after unwittingly feeding flour-formula to her infant son.
That's when her husband pointed out the formula had separated only a few minutes after making it, leading Frydrych to discover the bottle was filled with flour.
Frydrych also expressed concern over what other substances these tampered formula bottles could contain: "What if it were cleaner or something worse that could have poisoned him?"
Husband and wife Rafid Khoshi, 46, and Manal Sulaiman, 43, reportedly made nearly half a million dollars reselling tampered baby formula to a distributor in El Cajon California.
In 2017, another woman pleaded guilty to tampering with baby formula by replacing it with a flour and sugar mixture before returning it for cash.
h/t: Newsweek
