Fifty one baby foods made from dried milk and produced by 10 different manufacturers from seven countries were purchased on the Czech market and tested. IS900, the specific fragments for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), were detected using PCR in 25 samples (49.0 %), fragment f57 were detected by real time PCR in 18 samples (35.3%). These results corresponded to the epidemiological situation in Europe. An increase in paratuberculosis in cattle, which was almost unknown in the Czech Republic before 1990, has been observed in the last decade. The possible risk of MAP dead cells or bacterial structures in food is discussed in respect to autoimmune Crohn's disease. Producers should use MAP free milk for baby foods production.