Statements — First Steps Nutrition Trust

Statement on House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity report

Statement on Nutramigen recall January 2024

Briefing document on infant milk formula prices, cover

Front cover of briefing document

How does legislation on infant formula composition and labelling differ in the UK and US?

Statement on Prolacta Bioscience Human Milk-based Breastmilk fortifier

Statement on Best Start Foods in Scotland and changes to Healthy Start from April 2020

Statement on Making up bottles of infant formula from hot taps and baby kettles

Changes to regulations for infant milks 2020

Empowering Good Infant Nutrition

On 1st March 2019 the Mayor and First Steps Nutrition Trust hosted an ‘Empowering Good Infant Nutrition in London’ conference at City Hall.

In the London Food Strategy, published in December 2018, the Mayor committed to:

• Support an increase in breastfeeding rates in London

• Make London a baby friendly city

• Make the GLA group more breastfeeding friendly

• Encourage all Boroughs to achieve Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation in maternity and community services.

Statement on the EFSA Consultation on the appropriate age for introduction of complementary feeding into an infants' diet

The EFSA panel on Nutrition, Novel Food and Food Allergens (NDA) were requested to review its 2009 opinion on the appropriate age of introduction of complementary foods for infants and published its response and the public consultation in April 20191. The 260 page long consultation document, accompanied by 5 annexes, details the panel’s review of over 300 publications.

Nestle Advanced Infant Milks with HMO review

Artificial human milk oligosaccharides in infant milks: A review of evidence provided by Nestlé for their range of ‘SMA Advanced’ infant milk products.