This simple guide to infant formula, follow-on formula and other infant milks provides information about these breastmilk substitutes to ensure simple, clear, evidencebased information is available to all.

First Steps Nutrition Trust fully supports public health recommendations that mothers should exclusively breastfeed for the first six months wherever possible and continue to breastfeed alongside complementary foods in the second six months of life and for as long after that as the mother wishes to do so.