According to Xinhua News Agency for the recent media reports, including Nestle, including some well-known European brand infant food arsenic, lead, cadmium and other heavy metals content than breast, Chinese Center for Disease Control, National Food Safety Risk Assessment Committee Organizationexperts to discuss, in answering questions from reporters, said yesterday of infant cereal food supplements, arsenic, lead, cadmium and other standards are more stringent than the international Codex Alimentarius Commission, will further strengthen exchanges and collaboration with international organizations and countries to improve ourinfant formula food safety standards for food and raw materials.

According to reports, China's food safety risk assessment, infant cereal supplementary food safety standards, provides for the limited indicators of arsenic and lead, arsenic is 200 micrograms per kilogram, a lead of 200 micrograms per kilogram, but the international Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC require limited indicators of arsenic and lead) is not on the infant cereal food supplements. China and CAC were not formulated infant complementary food cadmium limit indicators, but our main raw material for the food rice cadmium limit requirement stricter than the CAC standard (0.4 mg) per kilogram (0.2 mg per kilogram). Therefore, our existing standards are more stringent than the CAC.

The experts also pointed out that, advocate breastfeeding infants less than 6 months, as much as possible. For infants over 6 months, only feeding breast milk can not meet the developmental needs of the child should be the expert guidance, reasonable to add complementary feeding of infants and young children in line with national standards.