Earlier in UK, a 15-week-old baby had eaten honey causing clostridium botulinum, is the 3rd local cases within a year, but fortunately all the babies is not diagnosed with any muscle weakness which can lead to breathing difficulties and death if serioius.

Due to soil or dust particles from clostridium botulinum, also can be contained within honey, so local experts have advise with the Food Standards Agency, children too young have a weak digestive system which cannot fight the gastrointestinal bacteria, in particular, to remind parents not to allow their baby who is under one year old to eat honey, or honey in water mixed with milk to drink.

UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) said that over the past 30 years, local recorded only 11 cases of infant clostridium botulinum cases, of which three occurred in the past 12 months, all infants to be hospitalized poisoning, treated and recovered.

FSA experts pointed out that although not all infants eaten honey will cause clostridium botulinum, but parents must not underestimate the risks, and again to remind parents, less than 6 months old baby, only suitable for drinking breast milk or formula powder milk. Even mixing honey with breast milk or formula powder milk are absolutely inappropriate.