A lawsuit in New York claims Baby Brezza’s automated formula machines produce diluted bottles, potentially endangering infants’ health and weighing on the company’s claims of accuracy and safety.
A proposed class action in New York federal court alleges that Baby Brezza’s automated formula machines can dispense too little powder, leaving infants with diluted bottles even when parents follow the instructions correctly. According to Law360 and the case docket, the lawsuit targets Baby Brezza Enterprises LLC and Betesh Group Holding Corporation and says the problem affects the Formula Pro, Formula Pro Advanced and Formula Pro Mini models.
The complaint says the company has long promoted the devices as a convenient, accurate way to prepare infant formula, but that real-world use can produce bottles with the wrong formula-to-water ratio. It also says parents have reported concerns to federal regulators for years, and that the company has responded by blaming setup, cleaning, maintenance or formula-selection errors rather than issuing a recall or warning consumers. ClassAction.org reported that the suit argues these failures can put babies at risk of inadequate nutrition and weight loss.
The filing relies in part on independent testing cited by Consumer Reports, which the lawsuit says found the Formula Pro Advanced dispensed about 15% less powder than expected on average, while the WiFi version fell even further short. The complaint says that under-dispensing is more serious than Baby Brezza has acknowledged and undercuts its claims that the machine produces the “perfect consistency” and is more accurate than hand scooping.
The named plaintiffs, from Illinois, New Jersey and New York, say they only discovered the alleged defect after their babies appeared unusually hungry, failed to gain weight as expected or, in one case, lost significant weight and were hospitalised. The suit seeks to represent U.S. consumers who bought the machines for personal or household use, and it argues that parents would not have purchased them had they known the products could repeatedly make diluted bottles.
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