EU: MEPs back claim that DHA helps babies' eyesight
By: Keith Nuthall | 6 April 2011
Proposals to allow food manufacturers to claim that adding the fatty acid DHA to baby food helps the visual development of infants up to a year old were backed by The European Parliament today (6 April).
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Proposals to allow food manufacturers to claim that adding the fatty acid DHA to baby food helps the visual development of infants up to a year old were backed by The European Parliament today (6 April).
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