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Infant Formula Selenium Rule Agrees With Manufacturers’ Routines

 
• By Eileen Francis

FDA issues a final rule on a range for selenium in infant formulas, denying industry requests to broaden the range to accommodate products currently outside the agency’s 2-7 mcg per 100 kilocalorie range. The rule finalizes a proposal from 2013 and takes effect in June 2016.

FDA’s final rule on selenium levels in infant formula and on labeling for the ingredient requires changes that manufacturers “routinely” make, according to a final rule that takes effect in June 2016.

According to a notice in the June 23 Federal Register, the rule – “Infant Formula: Addition of Minimum and Maximum Levels of Selenium to Infant Formula and Related...

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