Food Safety for Infants & Toddlers
These Infants & Toddlers web pages contain information about infant formula that may be helpful to industry, consumers, government agencies, and other interested parties. They include the following:
- Information about FDA's regulation of commercial infant formulas
- Commonly asked questions about infant formulas
- Links to other relevant resources
- How to report problems
Requirements for infant formula are found in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. All manufacturers of infant formula must begin with safe food ingredients, which are either generally recognized as safe (GRAS) or approved as food additives for use in infant formula.
Once an infant formula product is formulated, current laws require that the manufacturer must provide FDA assurance of the nutritional quality of that particular formulation before marketing the infant formula. FDA has provisions that include requirements for certain labeling, nutrient content, manufacturers quality control procedures (to assure the nutrient content of infant formulas), as well as company records and reports. FDA is also working to finalize a proposed rule for good manufacturing practice, quality control procedures, quality factors, notification requirements, and reports and records, for the production of infant formulas.
Infant Formula and Infant Formula Supplies
The FDA published a new webpage to better organize content related to infant formula. The page is intended to help both consumers and industry access information more easily.
Food Safety & Nutrition from FDA
- Handling Infant Formula Safely: What You Need to Know
- Food Safety Booklet for Pregnant Women, Their Unborn Babies, and Children Under Five
- Food Safety for Moms-To-Be
- Advice about Eating Fish
- The Nutrition Facts Label
- Feed Your Mind: Agricultural Biotechnology
- Safe Food Handling
- Closer to Zero: Reducing Childhood Exposure to Contaminants from Foods
- What You Can Do to Limit Exposure to Arsenic
- What You Can Do to Limit Exposure to Arsenic and Lead from Juices
- What You Can Do to Limit Exposure to Arsenic and Lead from Juices
- To Help Protect Children from Environmental Contaminants, Healthy Food Choices for Your Baby Aged 6-12 Months
- The Key to a Well-Balanced Diet is Eating a Variety of Healthy Foods
- Bottled Water Everywhere: Keeping It Safe
- FDA Regulates the Safety of Bottled Water Beverages Including Flavored Water and Nutrient-Added Water Beverages
Alerts
Additional Resources
- Parenting Information | CDC
- Child Nutrition Programs | (USDA)
- Breastfeeding | NIH
- Children's Health | MEDLINEplus
- Choking | MEDLINEplus, (Atragantamiento)
- Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) | USDA ;- WIC provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.