The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may change its nutrient requirements for infant formula, including floating the possibility of adding new mandated nutrients, the agency said on May 13.
The agency started a review of the nutrients that are currently in formula, in what regulators described as the first comprehensive review since 1998.
Through a request for information, the FDA is beginning its review by asking the public to provide data on six questions, including whether to adjust the required minimum and maximum levels for nutrients and what other nutrients regulators should mandate.
People have until the end of Sept. 11 to respond.
“You can’t Make America Healthy Again if we don’t fix what nourishes our youngest and most vulnerable Americans,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement....
