UK: Manufacturers "need clarity in follow-on formula advertising"

By: Katy Askew | 11 March 2010

The UK's Food Standards Agency and Department of Health have urged infant formula manufacturers to make clearer in their advertising of follow-on milk that the product is aimed at babies over six months old.

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The UK's Food Standards Agency and Department of Health have urged infant formula manufacturers to make clearer in their advertising of follow-on milk that the product is aimed at babies over six months old.

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