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Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control and repealing Council Directive 92/52/EEC, Commission Directives 96/8/EC, 1999/21/EC, 2006/125/EC and 2006/141/EC, Directive 2009/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulations (EC) No 41/2009 and (EC) No 953/2009 Text with EEA relevance · European Union

(29) According to the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO), low birth weight infants should be fed mother’s milk. Nonetheless, low birth weight infants and pre-term infants may have special nutritional requirements which cannot be met by mother’s milk or standard infant formula. In fact, the nutritional requirements of a low birth weight infant and a pre-term infant can depend on the medical condition of that infant, in particular on that infant’s weight in comparison with that of an infant in good health, and on the number of weeks the infant is premature. It is to be decided on a case-by-case basis whether the infant’s condition requires the consumption, under medical supervision, of a food for special medical purposes developed to satisfy the nutritional requirements of infants (formula) and adapted for the dietary management of that infant’s specific condition.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.