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Federal Health Authorities swear for overhaul for overhaulUS food supplyThey take a new reviewBaby formula.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy JR, food and medicine management focused food and medications to review the foods and other substances that fill in the bottles of American babies. The effort called “Operation Stork” is the first deep glance since 1998.
“The FDA will use all sources and bodies to make sure that the baby’s formula products are safe and useful for families and children who trust them,” he said.
Three-quarters of US babiesconsume the formulaDuring the first six months of life, about 40%, according to the centers of disease control and prevention centers, it accepts it as a sole source of nutrition.
Formula In about six decades in the United States, nutrition of babies who nourish the generations of prosperous babies, Dr. Steven Abrams, a Texas baby nutritionist.
The wider scientific community has called for the re-evaluation of the baby formula for many years and “fully supports this idea about a comprehensive appearance,” he said.
The existing formula products in the United States are safe and nutrition.
“But there are many science and we want FDA rules to match the world’s most recent sciences,” he said.
This is what you need to know about the surgery stork speed.
What is baby formula and why do so many babies consume it?
Baby formula is generally a product that is designed to imitate human breastfeeding for children 12 months. It can be a source of nutrition or extra breast milk.
The FDA rules require that baby formulas contain 30 specific nutrients with minimum levels for 10 to 10 and maximum levels.
The composition changes, but all formulas must have a calories of protein, carbohydrates and fats reflecting those found in human milk.
Federal RulesRecommend babies only for breastfeeding for the first six months of life and nutrients for the first year or more when adding new foods to the child’s diet.
Parents are unable to use a formula to prevent breastfeeding or breastfeeding to allow a mother of medical conditions, business conflicts, including other family members, including other family members.
Why does the government review the baby formula now?
Kennedy announced the study of a baby formula as part of the “healthy” agenda for the food supply of the baby in March.
The FDA’s overview of heavy metals and other pollutants, to investigate other pollutants, as well as the opinion of the agency.
US medical workers will last two hours milled discussion Baby formula on Wednesday.
What issues will cover?
The FDA provides information on the fact that the items required in new scientific data and baby formula are not added, removal or modification. The deadline for comments is September 11.
Scientists, the latest information about the composition of the human milk and a study on how to digest and absorbs the nutrients in breastfeeding and formula.
In addition, they want the FDA to compare US formulas to otherwise, Bridget Young learned to feed the baby at Rochester University.
“How is our rules different?” said. “Maybe think about their rules and think potential international adaptation.”
More international alignment was easier In 2022, the United States’s baby formula crisisWhen pollution closes an Abbott factory, young people causing monthly deficiency for American parents.
What about special items?
In recent years, some parents said that products produced in Europe have healthier options for products abroad.
The formulary rules in the United States and Europe are slightly different from the requirements for nutrients and tests, but are generally similar, abrams.
“The differences between the United States and Europe should not be ‘better’ or better ‘or’ better ‘or’ better ‘.
Still, for example, iron, the United States is included in higher levels at higher levels in Europe, and astrams have claimed that US officials can reduce iron targets.
Other components in recent years have been added to the formula. These include docosahexaeno acid or DHA, a necessary omega-3 fatty acid and human milk oligosaccharides, but the cow’s milk, but the cow’s milk includes complex sugar. Although they are useful, it is not required.
“These were added to some formulas, but not to other formulas, so we want to take a look,” Abrams said.
Many parents were concerned about formula items like additional sugar andseed oilHe was aimed at a threat to the supply of more food by Kennedy.
Recent studies can be associated with weight gain in children in children, such as a layer of glucose and corn syrup in children’s formula. Most young people said that most experts accept the main sugar type found in breast milk, he said.
In the United States, there are seed oils in baby formulas, said young. However, this is the last number of plant oils that provide the necessary saturated and unsaturated fats required by babies.
“You need to provide various fatty acids you see in breast milk,” he said.
What are the next steps?
Properly processed, the FDA’s baby formula study will need “at least one year”. And this will require a wide range of access to more than one government agencies and formula manufacturers and consumers.
“No shortcuts are not possible and no research, white paper or even the committee report is enough to make it properly,” he said.
This story was first displayed Fortune.com
