But the point is that _even if no one had died_, SimplyThick had not been developed and manufactured with health and safety in mind.
The incident illustrates the dangers of reckless innovation and experimentation.
The fact poor factory production quality hurt a small subset of children it wasn't originally 'invented' for is not a failure of 'reckless innovation and experimentation' (whatever that means). Xanthan gum was tested by the FDA and continues to be consumed in countless other products today, that process will always be imperfect.
It's very questionable any sort of hyper-safe approach to regulation and a general hostility towards innovation/experimentation would have even caught the risks of poor factory conditions... or whether they would have even tested it on a subset of premature babies at risk for NEC.
I fault them for not doing do oversight during manufacturing.