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Noun

infant formula ‎(plural infant formulas)

1. A manufactured food simulating human milk, designed for feeding to babies and infants under 12 months of age.
   • 1888, Pye Henry Chavasse, Wife and Mother: Or, Information for Every Woman, page 272:

     The great desideratum, in devising an infant's formula for food, is to make it, until he be nine months old, to resemble as much as possible a mother's own milk.

   • 1944, Rocky Mountain Medical Journal, volume 41, page 291:

     No extra ingredients to calculate, because it's a complete infant formula.

   • 2004, Enterobacter Sakazakii and Other Microorganisms in Powdered Infant Formula, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations:

     Reconstituted powdered infant formula is probably a common vehicle in transmitting Salmonella to infants, given its major role in the infant diet, but contamination of formula is more likely to occur from the preparer or preparation environment than from the manufacturing process.

   • 2007, Don M. Roberton, Practical Paediatrics:

     Health professionals and caregivers are faced with a bewildering array of infant formulas for non-breastfed infants.

Synonyms

• (manufactured food simulating human milk): baby formula

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