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.
Resources available include:
- Handling Infant Formula Safely: What You Need to Know
- Safe Feeding of Babies at Higher Risk of Foodborne Illness (Consumer Infographic)
- Tips for Safely Preparing Powdered Infant Formula (Consumer Infographic)
- Tips for Preparing Imported Infant Formula (Consumer Infographic)
- Help Prevent Cronobacter Illness: Prepare and Store Powdered Infant Formula Safely (Consumer Infographic)
- Questions & Answers for Consumers Concerning Infant Formula
- Information for Health Care Professionals on Safe Handling of Infant Formula
Food Safety & Nutrition from FDA
- 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
- 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.
Translations
en español (Spanish)
- La fórmula infantil
- Manipulación segura de la leche de fórmula infantil: Lo que necesita saber
- Alimentación segura de bebés con mayor riesgo de enfermedades transmitidas por los alimentos
- Consejos para preparar la leche de fórmula infantil en polvo de forma segura
- Consejos para preparar la fórmula infantil importada
- Información para profesionales de la salud sobre la manipulación segura de la leche de fórmula infantil
العربية (Arabic)
- كيفية التعامل مع حليب الأطفال بأمان
- لرضاعة الآمنة للأطفال الأكثر عرضةللإصابة بالأمراض المنقولة بالغذاء
- نصائح لتحضير حليب الأطفالالمجفف بأمان
မြန်မာ (Burmese)
- အစားအစာ အချက်အလက်များ
- အစာကြောင့်ဖြစ်သော ရောဂါဖြစ်နိုင်ခြေ မြင့်မားသော ကလေးငယ်များအား ဘေးကင်းစွာ ကျွေးမွေးခြင်း
- ကလေးဖော်မြူလာနို့မှုန့်ကို ဘေးကင်းစွာ ဖျော်စပ်ပြင်ဆင်ခြင်းအတွက် အကြံပြုချက်များ
دری (Dari)
- استفاده مصئون از شیرخشک طفل نوزاد
- تغذیه مصئون اطفال نوزادی که در معرض خطر بلندتر امراض ناشی از غذا هستند
- نکاتی برای آماده کردن مصئونشیرخشک پودری طفل نوزاد
नेपाली (Nepali)
- शिशुको फर्मुला सुरक्षित रूपमा ह्यान्डल गर्दै: के तपाईंले जान्न आवश्यक छ
- खाद्यजन्य रोगको उच्च जोखिममा रहेका बच्चाहरूलाई सुरक्षित खाना खुवाउनुहोस्
- सुरक्षित रूपमा तयारीका लागि सुझावहरू पाउडर गरिएको शिशु फर्मुला
Soomaali (Somali)