Outcome of a public consultation on the draft Scientific Opinion of the EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA) on the essential composition of infant and follow-on formulae

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) carried out a public consultation to receive input from the scientific community and all interested parties on the draft scientific opinion on the essential composition of infant and follow-on formulae, prepared by the EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA Panel) and endorsed by the Panel for public consultation at its Plenary meeting on 11 April 2014. The written public consultation for this document was open from 24 April 2014 to 29 May 2014. EFSA received comments from 31 interested parties. EFSA and its NDA Panel wish to thank all stakeholders for their contributions. The current report summarises the outcome of the public consultation, and includes a brief summary of the comments received and how the comments were addressed. The NDA Panel prepared an updated version of the scientific opinion on essential composition of infant and follow-on formulae taking into account the questions/comments received. The opinion was discussed and adopted at the NDA Plenary meeting on 26 June 2014, and is published in the EFSA Journal.