The manufacturer of a hospital feed "strongly linked" to the death of one baby and illness of 14 others has said it is "saddened" by what has happened.
ITH Pharma managing director Karen Hamling said it was co-operating fully with an inquiry by health officials.
The baby died from blood poisoning at St Thomas' Hospital in south London from suspected contaminated drip food.
Public Health England said babies at six hospitals developed septicaemia from the Bacillus cereus bacterium.
'Establish facts'
Ms Hamling said in a statement: "ITH Pharma is very saddened to hear about the death of a baby in hospital, and that 14 others are ill with septicaemia.
"ITH Pharma is a specialist manufacturer of parenteral nutrition, which is given to babies in neonatal intensive care units.
"The products in question, which are no longer in circulation, are made to order for individual patients on a daily basis, in response to bespoke orders from hospitals.
"We are co-operating fully with the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) in the investigation, and are doing everything we can to help them establish the facts in this case as quickly as possible."
Public Health England (PHE) said the cases were "strongly linked" with a number of batches of a particular form of the intravenous liquid made by the London-based company.
Paul Cosford, PHE's director of health protection, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a possible point when contamination entered the products last week had been identified. more
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