'Simply Thick' Investigated In Colorado Springs' Infant Death
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)- The Food and Drug Administration is investigating the food additive Simply Thick and a possible role in the death of an infant in Colorado Springs.
Simply Thick is used in food to help premature babies who have trouble swallowing. The product is now under investigation for possibly causing the type of intestinal failure that killed a young girl from Colorado Springs.
"Five o'clock that evening she'd been rushed in for emergency surgery, but her intestines were already dead. There was nothing they could do," said mother Stacey Cope.
Cope lost her baby girl two years ago. She didn't know what caused her daughter to die until this investigation.
Cope is urging any parent of a premature infant to heed the FDA's warning and not use Simply Thick.
