Guidelines on the Nutritional Assessment of Infant Formulas

Download or read book Guidelines on the Nutritional Assessment of Infant Formulas written by Great Britain. Working Group on the Nutritional Assessment of Infant Formulas and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report which should be of assistance to Government, industry and health professionals. It provides a guide to the standards of evaluation appropriate for today's infant formulas. In many circumstances good practices are already in place, although there are always some areas that can be developed. It is increasingly being recognized that nutrition and growth in early life have an impact on subsequent health and development. It is therefore important that comparative trials of infant formulas include larger groups of infants followed up for longer periods than is now generally the case.