title: [Occurrence of Bacillus cereus in infants and young children foods in 8 provinces in China].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the contamination status of infants and young children foods by Bacillus cereus.
  
  
  METHODS
  1716 food samples were collected from retail market in 8 provinces in China and examined for Bacillus cereus by the plate count method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Bacillus cereus was isolated from 9.85% of all the samples (169/1716). 14.08% of the powered formula for infants and young children were contaminated with B. cereus as well as 6.01% of the ready-to-eat cereal-based complementary foods for infants and young children. Counts higher than 100 CFU/g were found in 18 samples of the powered formula (2.20%) and 10 samples of the ready-to-eat cereal-based complementary foods (1.11%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Inspection and management of infants and young children foods should be enhanced to prevent Bacillus cereus infection.
authors: Ying
authors: Y
authors: Li
authors: Xiaoyan
authors: X
authors: Pei
authors: Dajin
authors: D
authors: Yang
authors: Ning
authors: N
authors: Li
mesh_terms: D001409:Bacillus cereus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002681:China; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D005511:Food Handling; D005516:Food Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food / Q000382:microbiology*