Health and nutrition claims for infant formula are poorly substantiated and potentially harmful

BMJ. 2020 May 6:369:m875. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m875.

Daniel Munblit^{1

2}, Helen Crawley³, Richard Hyde⁴, Robert J Boyle^{5

6}

¹ Department of Paediatrics and Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Institute of Child's Health, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
² Section of Inflammation, Repair and Development, National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
³ First Steps Nutrition Trust, London, UK.
⁴ School of Law, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK.
⁵ Section of Inflammation, Repair and Development, National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK r.boyle@imperial.ac.uk.
⁶ Centre of Evidence-based Dermatology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Abstract

Marketing claims for infant formula should be banned, argue Daniel Munblit and colleagues