Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 8737

Infant Foods

Tabled: 11 October 2024
Answered: 17 October 2024

Question

Rebecca Smith

ConservativeSouth West Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish voluntary industry guidelines on commercial infant and baby food and drink.

Answer

The independent Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), for their report on Feeding Young Children aged 1 to 5 years, published in July 2023, recommended that foods, including snacks that are high in salt, free sugars, saturated fat, or are ene...

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