{"id":29611,"date":"2025-06-13T16:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29611"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:24:00","slug":"the-f-d-a-is-reviewing-infant-formula-for-the-first-time-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29611","title":{"rendered":"The F.D.A. Is Reviewing Infant Formula for the First Time in Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The agency\u2019s commissioner has implied that some of their ingredients may be harmful. Is that true?<\/p>\n

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Last week, the Food and Drug Administration convened a panel of nutrition scientists, pediatricians and other experts to discuss the first comprehensive review of infant formula nutrient requirements since 1998.<\/p>\n

The review is part of an initiative, called \u201cOperation Stork Speed<\/a>,\u201d which health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in March to improve the safety and quality of the U.S. infant formula supply.<\/p>\n

Many health experts have applauded the effort, but some also worry that it could raise unnecessary fears that infant formulas in the United States are unsafe.<\/p>\n

In a Fox News segment<\/a> last Friday, Dr. Marty Makary, the F.D.A. commissioner, implied that common ingredients in formulas, like seed oils, may be harmful to health, mentioning them alongside contaminants with known health effects like lead and arsenic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMoms want baby formula without seed oils, without corn syrup, without added sugar, without arsenic and lead and other heavy metals,\u201d Dr. Makary said in the segment.<\/p>\n

We asked several scientists who specialize in infant health and nutrition to weigh in on four concerns Dr. Makary and other F.D.A. officials have raised about infant formulas in the United States. These products are safe, they said, but there are ways to make them better.<\/p>\n

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The agency\u2019s commissioner has implied that some of their ingredients may be harmful. Is that true?Last week, the Food and Drug Administration convened a panel of nutrition scientists, pediatricians and other experts to discuss the first comprehensive review of infant formula nutrient requirements since 1998.The review is part of an initiative, called \u201cOperation Stork Speed,\u201d which health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in March to improve the safety and quality of the U.S. infant formula supply.Many health experts have applauded the effort, but some also worry that it could raise unnecessary fears that infant formulas in the United States are unsafe.In a Fox News segment last Friday, Dr. Marty Makary, the F.D.A. commissioner, implied that common ingredients in formulas, like seed oils, may be harmful to health, mentioning them alongside contaminants with known health effects like lead and arsenic.\u201cMoms want baby formula without seed oils, without corn syrup, without added sugar, without arsenic and lead and other heavy metals,\u201d Dr. Makary said in the segment.We asked several scientists who specialize in infant health and nutrition to weigh in on four concerns Dr. Makary and other F.D.A. officials have raised about infant formulas in the United States. These products are safe, they said, but there are ways to make them better.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29613,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29614,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29611\/revisions\/29614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}