The first trial against Abbott Laboratories Inc. involving infant formula designed for premature babies began on Tuesday in Missouri.

Attorney Jake Plattenberger told jurors in an opening statement that Abbott’s cow’s milk-based formula, sold under the Similac brand, caused plaintiff Margo Gill’s daughter, Robynn Davis, to get necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC, a gastrointestinal inflammation.

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