Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken since October 2010 to ensure that local authorities and other interested parties are applying and interpreting the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations in accordance with his Department’s Guidance Notes on the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations 2007.

Jane Ellison

The Department has made the Guidance Notes on the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations 2007 available on the Department’s website and has regularly met with local authorities; the Advertising Standards Authority; the Food Standards Agency; the industry trade association and individual businesses to ensure that the Department’s advice is communicated to businesses and enforcers. Enforcement action, which could potentially result in court action, is carried out by local authorities.