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Infant Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps with the Food Standards Agency to (a) review the standards for baby food products and (b) ensure that those standards are updated to include (i) new baby foods mad

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 17 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 19 Jun 2025
Answer: 25 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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17 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps with the Food Standards Agency to (a) review the standards for baby food products and (b) ensure that those standards are updated to include (i) new baby foods mad
19 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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25 Jun 2025
Answer published
Children’s early years provide an important foundation for their future health and strongly influences many aspects of wellbeing in later life.It is vital that we maintain the highest standards for foods consumed by babies and infants, which is why we hav...

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