(3 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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ARCHIVE: Cheshire, Connecticut - 12 May 2022
1. Mother holding baby formula
2. Scooping powdered formula into a bottle
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Austin, Texas – 30 May 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Steven Abrams, University of Texas:
"So the formula supply in the United States is absolutely safe and extremely high quality. But just because something is safe doesn't mean we can't think about how to improve it. So the purpose of this is to take a look at all the ingredients that are in infant formula and see do we have just the right amounts, do we the best forms, and can we improve it?"
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Chicago – 30 May 2025
4. Various of infant formula on shelves in a grocery store
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Austin, Texas – 30 May 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Steven Abrams, University of Texas:
"So, some of the things we're interested in are oils and fats to make sure that making sure that what's in breast milk that we need to have, those types of fats in human formula are there, but we're using the right type. We want to make sure that formulas that don't use the sugar that's in breast milk called lactose actually have the sugar that's best for the babies in there."
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Chicago – 30 May 2025
6. Various hypoallergenic and organic infant formulas
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Austin, Texas – 30 May 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Steven Abrams, University of Texas:
"We'll make sure there's just the right amount of iron calcium phosphorus and not too much for bones and for development. We want to make sure that new things that we've discovered that are really important in breast milk, like what are called oligosaccharides, are present in formula if they're shown to be beneficial. We want make sure that there's DHA that's mandated in formulas if that's shown to beneficial, which I think it will be. And we want to be sure that we have a clear program to monitor infant formulas for heavy metals and make sure that they're absolutely as low as possible."
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Chicago – 30 May 2025
8. DHA and other nutrients on formula container
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ARCHIVE: Cheshire, Connecticut - 12 May 2022
9. Infant formula with DHA
10. Close-up of bottle with formula
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Austin, Texas – 30 May 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Steven Abrams, University of Texas:
"Sometimes parents will be concerned about this formula or that formula. The best thing to do is to talk to their pediatrician, their pediatric caregiver or pediatric dietician or somebody that's a true expert. Above all, I can't emphasize enough not to try to make your own formula at home. It's dangerous, they're not nutritionally complete, and the infant formulas are marketed and registered with the FDA are vastly safer. We're trying to improve them. But do not attempt to make formula at home, no matter what you might read on the internet or elsewhere."
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ARCHIVE: London - April 25, 2013
12. Close of sleeping... [truncated]
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