title: Bacterial contamination in traditional Gambian weaning foods.
abstract: Although emphasis on infant feeding is rightly being placed on breast-feeding, the need for safe weaning foods for the developing world must also receive its due attention. Traditional weaning foods used for young infants in a typical West African village can be as hazardous, bacteriologically, as commercial milk products, and providing a breast-fed child with supplements under the conditions which prevail in much of the developing world is potentially dangerous, whatever the source of the food.
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001942:Breast Feeding; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000517:prevention & control; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005714:Gambia; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food / Q000592:standards; D012306:Risk; D014886:Weaning