R.The federal government launches the first in -depth review of infant nutrients in nearly 30 years. Although this step may raise questions between families, pediatric experts say there is nothing to worry about: the FDA infant formula remains one of the most strictly organized food products in the country and is completely safe.
However, the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that it is time to take a new look. On Tuesday, agencies Declare They have issued an application for information about infants’s nutrients.
The review is part of an initiative launched in March, called Seltork operationWhich aims to “ensure safety, reliability and nutritional adequacy for infant formula for American families,” he said. HHS. It is not yet clear who will lead the review, but the Food and Drug Administration has been appointed a committee committee of experts in June, which will be within the reach of the public.
“The root transparency workforce process of the components is presented in the infant format and places science in the front and the center,” Secretary HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He said in the press statement. “Every child has a basic right at a health start. We give parents the truth and tools necessary to achieve this.”
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Can the form of infant change?
Experts say that any effort to ensure that infant formula contains the best nutrients is important, but they warn that this review is not a sign that the infant formula is dangerous, and they do not expect to lead to exciting changes.
according to HHSThe Food and Drug Administration “regularly reviews the requirements of individual nutrients for infant format,” but the last time the agency conducted an in -depth review of the formula of infants in 1998. Dr. Stephen Abrams, professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas in 1998, says in Jounieities, which is June, which is considered in Junior in 1998. And careful and precisely. He says that experts, including themselves, want to “make sure of that [the review] It does not become out of concerns that the formula of children, as it is currently present, is not inherently safe. This is not true. “
Dr. Mark Corcins, Professor of Pediatrics at the Center for Health Sciences at the University of Tennessee, says that the review can lead to recommendations for some nutrients, such as vitamin D, and less than other ingredients, such as iron, but: “I don’t think there are any huge changes, the Earth escapes out of this.”
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What do parents need to know him?
Experts reassure families that they should not be confused about the integrity of the FDA formula, which is a safe alternative to breastfeeding.
Abrams warns families Not to try to make their own formula Or use other alternatives that are not sufficiently sufficient in terms of nutritional Unpasteurized milk or Goat milk.
“I will be destroyed if one of the parents saw this request to obtain information, then I felt nervous from the product of the childhood formula they use with their child,” says Bridge Young, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Rochester Medical University Center. “Parents’ appeal is to take a deep breath. They are safe; you do not need to worry about the integrity of our current products.”
