A young mother has shared her horror after claiming she found a maggot in a bottle of formula from Target.
Rachel Ruddiman spotted the insect larva in her five-month-old Matilda’s bottle. She had made the bottle with the Kendamil One Organic formula.
Kendamil insists the maggot was likely the cause of home contamination and strict health and safety practices are being implemented. The company has contacted the mother to determine how it got into the bottle.
The mother says she noticed Matilda was having trouble drinking last Friday. It wasn’t until she removed the bottle that she began to understand why.
New York mother Rachel Ruddiman was shocked to find a maggot in her daughter’s bottle, which she said came from formula purchased at Target
Manufacturers Kendamil say the contamination must have occurred in Ruddiman’s home, which had recently been thoroughly cleaned
Sickening photos show how Ruddiman discovered a maggot blocking the bottle’s teat.
“She was gassy and vomiting that week since I started that new can, but I didn’t really think much about it until I was washing the bottle,” Ruddiman explained.
‘I saw a dead maggot coming out of the nipple and I thought, ‘That’s why you’re having trouble eating the formula,’ because it looked like the nipple was clogged with this maggot.”
Ruddiman explained that she sterilizes her baby’s bottles before placing them in her cupboard with the top closed.
Ruddiman says her daughter Matilda, five months old, was drinking from this bottle when she noticed the creature
Rachel used this $39.99 can of Kendamil Organic One forumla
She also just moved into a new apartment that has been thoroughly cleaned, which she said supports the suspicion that the formula was contaminated.
Ruddiman explained that she purchased the formula online because there is currently a shortage of British-made Kendamil in the US.
The manufacturer contacted Ruddiman on Thursday and stated that investigations showed the most likely cause was “unintentional domestic contamination.”
An explanation was given about various processes and checks that the formula goes through before it reaches the shelves, which minimize the risk of contamination.
Kendamil said it has several protocols in place to prevent contamination and suggested the maggot was the result of ‘household contamination’