Published: Jul 18, 2012

The Food and Drug Administration has responded to a petition from the American Chemistry Council (A.C.C.) and taken action to no longer allow Bisphenol A (B.P.A.) in baby bottles and sippy cups.

Published: Jul 17, 2012 By: Ankush Chibber

The Chinese year of the dragon is shaping up as a boon for the New Zealand dairy industry in China, the head of a growing NZ-based infant formula company has said.

Published: Jul 13, 2012 By: Ankush Chibber

Infant nutrition giant Mead Johnson has lost a legal battle over formula labelling in India.

Published: Jul 13, 2012

A study released today by the Australian National University (ANU) has found that infants who are solely breast fed for the first six months may be more susceptible to nut allergies.

Published: Jul 12, 2012

The global baby food market is forecast to reach US$38.7 billion by 2015, according to a recent report by leading research group A.M Mindpower solutions.

Published: Jul 06, 2012 By: Ankush Chibber

Australia’s GMP Pharmaceuticals hopes to tap into the infant formula potential in China with its pharmaceutical-grade production facility in New Zealand.

Published: Jul 04, 2012 By: Mark Astley

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and AOAC International have agreed to cooperate on the development of infant formula and adult nutritionals-related standards in an effort to avoid“duplication.”

Published: Jun 29, 2012

Gerber Products, a part of Nestle, has introduced Gerber Good Start Soothe formula, which has been designed to reduce excessive crying and colic in healthy infants.

Published: Jun 25, 2012

Swedish-Danish cooperative Arla Foods and China's baby food maker Biostime International have entered into ten-year financing and supply agreement.

Published: Jun 15, 2012 By: Ankush Chibber

A children’s rights organisation has come out strongly against proposed legislation in the Philippines that would favour infant formula milk and slow rising breastfeeding rates.

Published: Jun 15, 2012 By: Shane Starling

IDACE says first-reading amendments to EU dietetic food laws approved in the European Parliament today can provide the basis for a ‘soft landing’ even as the current proposal sees the removal of images that idealise infant formulas used by babies up to 12

Published: Jun 15, 2012 By: Rory Harrington

The US is to consider banning the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in infant formula packaging after accepting the plea from a prominent campaigning lawmaker on the chemical.

Published: Jun 09, 2012 By: Mark Astley

Nestlé South Africa has shrugged-off threats of a purchasing boycott relating to infant formula among the country’s Hindu community, stating that the encouragement by a religious leader lacks “merit.”

Published: Jun 05, 2012 By: Mark Astley

The brain development of infants raised on milk-based infant formula does “not differ significantly” from those fed breast milk and soy protein-based formula, a US study has claimed.

Published: May 31, 2012

Finland's dairy company Valio is set to re-enter the Finnish baby food market in June 2012, with the launch of its range of ready-to-serve baby foods.

Published: May 29, 2012

Researchers from the University of Almeria, Spain, have developed a new method which helps in finding the presence of most minute residues of drugs, which are actually given to livestock, in some infant foods.

Published: May 25, 2012 By: Rod Addy

A healthy designer fat for infant formula milk has been developed as the culmination of a global research project involving research bodies in Turkey, Istanbul and Georgia in the US.

Published: May 23, 2012

The NUK brand has partnered with nutrition expert and cookbook author Annabel Karmel to create Freshfoods product line, which provides parents the tools to easily create nutritious meals for baby at home.

Published: May 15, 2012

Ella’s Kitchen, the organic baby and toddler food company, is launching yogurts, fromage frais and rice puddings in the UK, marking its entry into the chilled food segment.

Published: May 14, 2012

Next time you pick up an organic cereal bar or buy infant formula, you might want to read the label closely. High levels of arsenic, a chemical linked to cancer, chronic diseases and developmental effects, have been found in foods that list organic brown