Please Contact The Baby Food Companies re 4 Month Labelling

[totalbabe77]

i have started a baby food business and our products should be in major supermarkets in the next few mths..we actually had some debate in our office about this point, and decided to err on the side of what's best for bubs and label all our single ingredient first foods as 6mths+..at our recent product launch at the pbc expo, we had so many parents saying "oh, so we can't start our bubs on this until 6 mths?What do we do before that?"..our dietitians were devastated at the lack of educated parents in the general community..we will actually have a large advertising campaign coming out later this year about the importance of starting solids at 6 mths will single ingredient 1st foods..i don't think there is enough information out there for parents..
Sorry for my rant..

[Trish]

Christie, good on you hun. I "think" I may have seen you out there.

Well done on spreading the word

[totalbabe77]

thanks trish..i don't want to step over the line of what i can/can't say, so don't want to say brand name etc..but we were all in yellow with a cute green caterpillar..i really hope we can make a difference to bubs..that really is our main focus.

[meow]

Just to throw a spanner in the works... I noticed yesterday that Bellamys baby rice cereral says it is suitable from 4 months old.

[Phteven]

I got this email from the foot standards peeps today

Dear Applicant / Submitter / Interested Party

You have received this email notification as you are either an Applicant, or have either made a submission and/or been listed on our database as an interested party, to one or more of the specific matters notified in the latest Notification Circular (13-08), published on 6 August 2008.

Unfortunately, it appears a technical glitch meant that our regular email alert was not sent out on that day. We were alerted to the problem yesterday and as a consequence we are now dispatching the alert. We have extended the closing date for all matters listed in the Circular by 1 week to account for the delay. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Please use this address Food Standards Australia New Zealand: Notification Circulars to access the latest Notification Circular, which is a concise summary of significant developments in relation to the following Applications and Proposals to amend the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, as well as other significant matters:

* Application A540 - Steviol Glycosides as Intense Sweeteners
* Application A583 - Country of Origin Labelling Requirements for Unpackaged Pork Products
* Application A589 - Food derived from Glufosinate Ammonium-tolerant Rice LLRICE62
* Application A614 - Food derived from Glyphosate-tolerant Cotton Line GHB614
* Application A615 - Food derived from Insect-protected Cotton Line COT67B
* Application A1001 - Food derived from Insect-protected Corn Line MIR162
* Application A1010 - Amendment to Bentonite Specification
* Proposal M1002 - Maximum Residue Limits (January, February, March 2008) [Australia only]
* Proposal P274 - Review of Minimum Age Labelling of Foods for Infants
* Proposal P307 - Code of Practice for Poultry Meat [Australia only]
* Proposal P1001 - Omnibus VII
* Proposal P1003 - Mandatory Iodine Fortification for Australia [Australia only]
* Proposal P1007 - Primary Production & Processing Requirements for Raw Milk Products [Australia only]

If you are interested in making a submission (A614, A615, M1002, P274 and p1007 are open for public comment), you can use this address Food Standards Australia New Zealand: Documents for public comment to access the Assessment Reports.

If the closing date for receipt of submissions on any matter is changed, information on this will also be available on this page.

Please feel free to distribute this information to others in your organisation who may be interested (or suggest that they may like to subscribe to this service). You can subscribe or unsubscribe through our website under the 'Subscription Service' button on the left (if you have difficulty doing this contact information@foodstandards.gov.au).

If you have a few minutes to nag them in the next week that would be great

This link takes you direct to the submissions form.
FSANZ: Application / Submission Forms

If anyone is part of a mailing list and can fwd this it would be great

[Phteven]

For the submission the number is Proposal P274 and the name is Review of Minimum Age Labelling of Foods for Infants.
They want fax numbers and so on but you can just put in 10 random numbers for the fax if you don't have one. I gave them the number of DH's office lol.

[Neenee Jellybeanie]

One thing i've noticed as well is that the ingredients in some of the baby foods are not suitable for the age range, such as onions and tomatos (acidic and irritating to tiny tums) for 6+ month olds.