Calls for National Infant Formula Recall Spread

Under the corrected information she relayed Wednesday, the results were:

— Nestle's Good Start Supreme Infant Formula with Iron had two positive tests for melamine on one sample, with readings of 0.137 and 0.14 parts per million.

— Mead Johnson's Infant Formula Powder, Enfamil LIPIL with Iron had three positive tests for cyanuric acid, at an average of 0.247 parts per million.

Separately, a third major formula maker — Abbott Laboratories, whose brands include Similac — told AP that in-house tests had detected trace levels of melamine in its infant formula. Those levels were below what FDA found in the other formulas, an Abbott spokesman said, and below any nation's safety guidelines.

The three firms — Abbott Laboratories, Nestle and Mead Johnson — manufacture more than 90 percent of all infant formula produced in the United States.

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Associated Press Writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar contributed to this report from Washington, D.C.

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On the Net:

The FDA's melamine guidance: http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/melamine.html

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