Why Can't Babies Eat Honey?

Honey seems harmless,healthy even.So why do doctors and medicalexperts advise parents to keephoney away from their infants?.For babies, honey brings therisk of infant botulism, aserious foodborne illness.Infant botulism is caused by a toxin,or poison, created by the bacterium"Clostridium botulinum.".This bacterium lives in soiland dust, but it also happensto contaminate honey.Babies under one yearshould never eat honey.But for older kids and adults,the bacteria harmlesslypasses through the body