Regulations on infant milks marketed as ‘Foods for Special Medical Purposes’ due to become mandatory in 2020: an update

As for infant formula and follow on formula, Directive 1999/21/EC was also replaced under the delegated act from the Foods for Specific Groups legislation (609/2013) mentioned above. The new Commission delegated Regulation is (EU) 2016/128, which was adopted on the 25th September 2015 and is meant to be mandatory from the 22nd of February 2020. As for the infant formula and follow on formula regulations, we have been told by the Department of Health and Social Care regulatory team that the UK will adopt these new regulations. Nonetheless we will keep a watching brief on the implications of BREXIT for these regulations. See First Steps Nutrition Trust’s statement on the regulatory changes and what they mean in practice here.